Are you lobbying for some kind of world government that would implement this?

I'm lobbying for abolishing time zones, man. Wow. Okay. Well, I guess that's pretty radical. Seems unlikely. You another idea? Yeah. What's another idea?

Instead of changing it by an hour,

change it by like a minute, phase it in over 60 days. Wow. Wow.

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics podcast. I'm Gaelin Drick. 36 governors seats are up for election

this fall. And today we're going to zoom in on some of the most competitive and consequential ones.

In particular, we want to look at places where full control of state government might be decided

by the governor's race and where Republicans falsely claimed that the 2020 election was fraudulent.

Think about states like Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

We're also going to take a look at some new data from one of last year's gubernatorial elections.

After Republican Glenn Youngkin won in Virginia, much of the campaign analysis focused on the role

of education played in shifting support towards Republicans. Was that a correct conclusion?

We'll talk about it. We'll also talk about some of the biggest legislative news out of Washington last week.

You guessed it. The effort to make daylight savings time permanent.

The country tried it before in the 70s and it wasn't popular. So should we expect different results

if we try it again? Here with me to discuss our editor-in-chief Nate Silver, Haney.

Hey, everybody. All's here with us is politics editor Sarah Frostensen. Hey, Sarah.

Hey, y'all. And elections analyst Jeffrey Scally. Hey, Jeff.

Hey, Galen. All right. Let's begin with the lighter topic or darker, depending on what time you wake up.

Ha, ha, ha, ha. Forget the pun. You can't laugh at your own talk.

Talk choke.

Nicely nicely done. Nicely done.

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