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Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for November 15th, 2013, the Don't You Dare call it a Catfight edition.

I'm David Plotz, the end of Slate.

I was both glad and sad as a citizen, glad as a Slate person, sad as a citizen, discover that the GabFest reached more people in October than health care.gov.

But I mean, that's... I hope that isn't the state than HealthCare.gov. But so it goes.

But I mean that's...

I hope that isn't the state of Healthcare.gov forever.

We reach more people with our Monday show than HealthCare.gov, for us.

We reach more people with shows that we don't even do than HealthCare.gov.

That was John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent here by my side in Slate's

Washington studio.

Hello, John.

And from New Haven is, of course, Slate senior editor, Emily Bazelon.

Hello, Emily.

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