Hey there, this is CW from the Virginia 7th in Richmond. I'm just headed out on my 1,800

and 8th consecutive daily run and I'll be celebrating five years without missing a single day

this Thanksgiving. I've listened to the NPR Politics podcast since the beginning and in those three

years I haven't heard a single episode while not running. So thanks for the motivation you guys.

This podcast was recorded at 1.49 pm on Thursday the 15th of November. And of course things may

have changed by the time you hear this. Okay, here's the show. Oh my gosh, I'm so impressed.

I hope this is so amazing. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast here with our weekly roundup.

A recount is underway in Florida. Rebel Democrats claim they can defeat Nancy Pelosi in a vote for

speaker. There's a bipartisan effort at criminal justice reform happening and of course we'll end

with Can't Let It Go. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Dominican Montenegro

political editor. I'm Kelsey Snell. I cover Congress. And I'm Mara Lias and National Political

Correspondent. All right guys. So let's start with the election results they keep coming in. How's

that sound? Right now Democrats are up to 35 flips in the house. They've gained a net of 35 seats.

We just learned this afternoon that the Democrat in Maine and that sweeping second congressional

district, pretty rural district, has now won because of the state's kind of peculiar ranked

choice system where the Republican had been ahead all this time, but because they take the lowest

vote getters and they redistribute the vote until someone gets to 50% plus one vote, the Democrat

wound up coming out ahead. Is this the first time ranked choice has been used for a congressional

election? This is. And Maine did this because of the governor in the state of LaPage who a lot of

Democrats didn't like and who has squeaked by because of three-way races. Yeah. The irony here

is that ranked choice actually doesn't apply to the governor's race only to federal races in Maine.

Well, this is totally a wild system. Yeah, it's completely wow. Two big picture points on this. I

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