What’s at stake in the midterms

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jane, Dara, and Matt kick off the unofficial beginning of campaign season by asking what happens if Democrats win in November and what if they lose? References and further reading: Matt's piece on the House Republican list of investigations that could happen if Dems win David Mayhew's Divided We Govern, mentioned by Matt Dara's piece on where DACA stands now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Joan, Jay.
0:01.4	I'm okay.
0:03.0	There's a lot happening in the world.
0:05.8	Yeah, all right.
0:06.8	Well, should we get this show on the road?
0:09.2	Yeah.
0:10.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:27.3	I'm Matthew Glacias here with Darryl and Jane Kostin, while Ezra is off in the desert.
0:33.6	We just had the Labor Day weekend, and as a result, we believe in taking holiday seriously
0:38.7	here, so we did not manage to prepare a white paper for you.
0:42.2	We're going to make a return to the white paper segment to make it up for you all.
0:46.3	And I wanted to say at the top, before we get into things that the Weeds pop up newsletter
0:50.8	that you may recall from last winter is coming back.
0:53.7	It's coming back for the midterms.
0:55.7	It's going to be out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
0:58.2	Going to be looking at what's at stake in the midterm elections.
1:02.0	You can sign up for that at Vox.com slash Weeds newsletter.
1:06.4	And today, we really wanted to talk about the same thing.
1:09.1	Labor Day is sort of the traditional start of the campaign season.
1:12.6	So we wanted to talk about what's going on in the midterms, and not exclusively from
1:18.3	a sort of horse race perspective, but in terms of what is concretely at stake here.
1:24.2	I think we know, you know, generic bald polls the show Democrats are up.
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