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The Focus Group Podcast

What a Week!

The Focus Group Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Sarah has a special message for Focus Group fans as we wait for the remaining election results.



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0:00.0

Hello everybody what a week? week.

0:13.0

This is Sarah Longwell publisher of the Bull Work, and if you have been listening to this

0:16.8

podcast for the last many months, then the election outcomes that we just got are not shocking to you because as we have

0:26.2

been saying the whole time swing voters they do not like these extremist

0:32.0

candidates they say at the top every time what do they care about?

0:36.3

They care about crime, they care about inflation, they care about the economy, yes.

0:40.0

When it came to vote choice, what we saw over and over again from the true swing voters, not the leaners, but the swing voters, they were voting for Democrats because many times it came down because they thought they were to extreme on abortion or because they just thought they were extreme in other ways and we saw that play out in race after race this week

1:00.5

But here's the thing. We are still waiting for results in Nevada, in Arizona,

1:10.0

and in terms of who controls the house. And so I am just checking in to say

1:15.4

that we are gonna take this week off

1:18.5

just because we still got all these races left account.

1:20.6

We are pulling together swing voters to do sort of a retrospective

1:24.4

to find out who they voted for and why they voted. We always you know we want to

1:28.7

make sure we're here to use the focus groups to shed light but it's just going to take a little bit here.

1:34.0

We're probably going to need another week to really field our group.

1:36.4

So we're going to be off this week.

1:39.0

Go check out the secret podcast that I just taped with my pal Jonathan last check out the next level with me

1:45.3

Tim and JBL go check out Charlie's podcast which is great I'm on Beg to

1:49.8

Differ this week with Mona Sharon so lots So lots to sift through, lots of other great Bullwork

1:55.0

podcast to go get your content from.

1:57.1

But I promise we will talk to a bunch of swing voters

2:00.2

and then we will let you listen to what they say.

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