The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 8th, 2018, the way too much news edition.

I'm David Ponce of Atlas Obscura.

I'm in a friend's bedroom in San Francisco, California.

Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine is New Haven.

John Dickerson of CBS is in New York.

And on this week's show, an extraordinary election leads to perhaps an ordinary outcome.

It's more or less what was predicted, but with enormous consequences for the nation, we will chew that over and digest it.

Then could this election reshape voting rights in America?

There has been so much discussion about voting rights ballot access, who gets to vote, did this election mark a turning point in that big fight?

And then Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been fired. vote, did this election mark a turning point in that big fight.

And then Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been fired.

That is an attorney general that I will not miss, or will I?

We will discuss.

Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter.

And a reminder, we are going to do our annual conundrum show, December 12th at NYU Scurbel Center in Manhattan.

There are tickets at slate.com slash live. It is a delightful evening of contemplation,

fighting, agreeable, jolly fighting, and insight into human nature and into the grand questions of life.

So you should please come and join us at our conundrum show.

And we're going to have a great special guest, Simon Dune, who's the judge on making it that wonderful, that wonderful, wonderful television show, who is really such great company and so much fun to be around. is such a wise and fun person, he's going to join us at that show. So come see us and Simon contemplate

conundrums on December 12 slate.com slash live for tickets. Tuesday night marked the most anticipated

midterm election of my lifetime, I think.

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