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Okay, here's the show. Hey y'all, it's the NPR-Politics podcast. Six days left to the election.

Oh my goodness, we are here with another daily episode for you. I'm Sam Sanders,

campaign reporter. I'm a sma-chal-ed. I cover demographics in the campaign. And I'm Susan

Davis, and I cover Congress. We have not all three been in the same room in a while.

In a long time. It's like a dream team, guys. Was it maybe the conventions?

Sue, I was saying it's a dream team. I like how she does the V-Bib-R-Faw. I just know that.

Some of the folks have noticed, on Halloween, Ron Elvin, the great distinguished Ron Elvin,

was me for Halloween. Did he wear Sean Brambleck pants? Just kidding. I was actually Ron.

Thanks to all those that gave us some love via social media. It was really fun to dress up,

like one of my role models. How do I feel? I've listened. Y'all know how I feel about Ron Elvin,

in a special way. Yeah, like you felt smarter by dressing up a big club, like those. He is my

personal hero. I was fine with being him for an hour. All right, let's talk about where the

race stands now. There is this growing sense that Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump

is shrinking. The Clinton campaign announced yesterday that she will be campaigning in Detroit

later this week. But Michigan is supposed to be a state that is going to be hers in the problems.

Clinton campaign also announced some ad buys and states that should be bluish, like Colorado and

New Mexico and Virginia. Right. And if you remember a week ago, the conversation was about

is Hillary Clinton expanding the map? We were talking about Texas and Georgia and a couple

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