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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The results are in! Vox’s Libby Nelson provides a rundown. Matthew Yglesias predicts the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Libby Nelson, your policy editor here at Vox.

0:38.2

The Democrats took the house.

0:39.4

Their Republicans added in the Senate.

0:41.4

That's what everyone said would happen.

0:43.6

How many people came out to vote though?

0:45.0

That was something I was trying to figure out.

0:47.1

So we won't know for sure until all of the absentee ballots, all of the provisional

0:51.6

ballots, and all of the California ballots of Vincone.

0:54.3

And although we're taping this early in the morning, it's safe to say California is

0:57.8

still going to be counting for a few more days.

1:00.5

We know already though that it was a lot of people.

1:02.9

It was over well over a hundred million that's up from a number in the around 80 million

1:07.8

in 2014.

1:08.8

Yeah.

1:09.8

The last time we had a midterm election, it's a pretty stunning level of turnout for elections

1:14.6

that historically Americans have not been all that interested in or can't help to vote

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