Hello everybody and welcome to the Focus Group podcast I'm Sarah Longwell publisher of the

bull work and today we're gonna do something a little different we're not gonna do

the clips of the focus group so if you literally are only here because you like listening to the real people

Then this might not be for you, but if you like the analysis that's what we're going to do today because we are almost entirely through the primary cycle.

Early September, there's going to be a few more.

We've got New Hampshire in there, Delaware, Massachusetts, but for the most part, the big states, the competitive states are locked up.

I think New Hampshire is probably the only one we're really looking forward to.

So I wanted to bring in my favorite friend political analyst whose name is not Amy Walter because Amy

Walter is actually my favorite but my next favorite is my old friend and

best-selling New York Times author Tim Miller. Hey Tim.

Hey Sarah, I feel like you should have said that I was on first before you told people

to sign off if they only are here for the focus group voices because maybe there are people

that only like the focus group voices but also like me.

That could be true.

I can recut it.

But even it's funny, I have a couple of people who like to tell me that the only reason they listen

is to hear the real people and it's annoying when it's...

I'm basically one of those people, not, I wouldn't say annoying.

I think that it differs for week to week. I thought Mark Caputo, who's an old nemesis of mine really, was very harsh on my candidates. I guess in retrospect maybe for good reason. I thought he was fantastic last week.

I think he got some other really good guess, Amy obviously,

but every once in a while I'm like,

give me some more people, you know, I want more real people right into my veins.

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