There Are Some Big Elections Happening In 2023

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Although much of our elections-related attention is already trained on 2024, there are consequential elections happening this very calendar year. The crew discusses the races to watch in 2023. They also look at how the Democratic Party's effort to rearrange its presidential primary calendar is going, and ask whether a survey of Republican National Committee members was a good or bad use of polling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh no, there's a winter storm advisory in Texas right now.
0:04.1	Oh no.
0:05.1	But I'm being Cabo this coming weekend, so.
0:07.1	Ooh.
0:08.1	Best of luck to everyone else.
0:09.9	Okay, Heidi Cruz.
0:11.3	Yeah.
0:12.3	Wow.
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0:14.3	That was a very, very specific burn.
0:19.6	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics podcast.
0:32.2	I'm Gaelyn Drew.
0:33.7	In our line of work, non-election years mean more vacation, better sleep, and Labor
0:40.0	days actually spent barbecuing.
0:42.6	There's just one problem.
0:45.0	Non-election years are a myth.
0:47.5	Although much of our elections based attention span is already trained on 2024, there are
0:52.4	consequential elections happening this very calendar year.
0:56.1	And today we're going to take some time to talk about them.
0:59.2	Okay, and yes, acknowledging that 2024 already looms large, we will also turn our attention
1:04.8	there.
1:05.8	Last week, the Democratic National Committee voted to give New Hampshire and Georgia
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