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Those Election Day 2020 Vibes

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, senior writer at FiveThirtyEight, about why we’re heading for a record gender gap in our presidential voting, issues for women voters and gender as a political frame, how differently individual voters interpret questions about issues like health care and the economy, and the drop in Trump support among white Christians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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True to Pleasure.

0:59.0

Quotes reminds us.

1:00.7

Faith sees best in the dark.

1:06.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

1:07.6

I'm Virginia Heffernin.

1:09.4

Joe Biden, the heartbroken man for our heartbroken time,

1:12.8

who is of course on the ballot today, is fond of quoting a shameless heenie poem.

1:17.6

What he quotes is actually a verse translation that heenie did of Sophocles' poem,

1:23.4

Philoctides. Heenie did this wonderful translation, and of course, verse translations are

1:28.9

incredibly difficult. You have to take, in this case, ancient Greek and not just get it

1:34.1

accurately into modern English, you have to make it sing in modern English. You have to make it

1:39.6

its own poem. One passage, this is Biden's favorite. It's an example of how heenie brought to

1:46.4

life the ancient dramas in modern, well, let's call it Irish English.

1:51.0

OK, I hope I can keep it together reading this and don't live to regret being so choked up today.

1:57.7

Here's heenie. History says, don't hope on this side of the grave, but then once in a lifetime,

2:05.2

the longed-for title wave of justice can rise up and hope and history rhyme.

2:12.5

I find it moving that many who stutter like Biden often discover that in committing poetry to

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