What Did We Learn From the Midterms?

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🗓️ 9 November 2018

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Executive Editor Matt Thompson interviews Atlantic reporters on what lessons they drew from the midterm elections, speaking in turn with: Vann Newkirk, Emma Green, Ron Brownstein, Adam Harris, and David Graham. Links - “The Democrats’ Deep-South Strategy Was a Winner After All”(Vann R. Newkirk II, November 8, 2018) - ”Tuesday Showed the Drawbacks of Trump's Electoral Bargain” (Ronald Brownstein, November 7, 2018) - “The Year of the Woman Still Leaves Women With Terrible Representation in Government” (Emma Green, November 7, 2018) - “The Democrats Are Back, and Ready to Take On Trump” (David A. Graham, November 7, 2018) - “America Is Divided by Education” (Adam Harris, November 7, 2018) - “The Georgia Governor’s Race Has Brought Voter Suppression Into Full View” (Vann R. Newkirk II, November 6, 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week's election left America with a split government.
0:03.5	Republican control of the Senate, Democratic control of the House,
0:07.8	along with a number of dramatic developments in state and local politics.
0:11.8	It would be artificial to impose one single story
0:15.0	onto the midterm results. So today we discuss five different lessons from the
0:19.7	midterms and what they might mean for 2020.
0:24.0	This is Radio Atlantic. Hi, I'm Matt Thompson, executive editor of the Atlantic. Today we're going to talk
0:46.4	about Tuesday's midterm elections. Given the many different results, what does
0:51.4	it all mean for American democracy? We're talking with five
0:54.5	Atlantic journalists, each of whom has been focused on a different theme or
0:58.2	question related to Tuesday's election. First up, how did voter purges and other battles over voter rights play into the results?
1:05.0	When we convened last week to preview the midterms, this was one of the big factors that our
1:10.0	reporters were watching.
1:11.0	Now, after the election election one of the biggest
1:14.0	unresolved questions is in Georgia where the Republican Secretary of State
1:18.0	Brian Kemp went up against the Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams. The race
1:22.3	had already been rife with allegations of
1:24.4	voter suppression as thousands of voters were purged from the ballot. Then on
1:28.9	on Tuesday many voters reported difficulty casting their ballots both in person and
1:34.2	absentee and now that race may be headed for a runoff. Our reporter,
1:39.8	Staff writer Van Newkirk was in Georgia this week.
1:43.0	Van, what was your biggest takeaway?
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