What Story Will This Election Tell Us?
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
With less than 36 hours to go until the final voting deadline for the midterm elections, it's important to know what's at stake. Amy Walter, a host on The Takeaway and National Editor of the Cook Political Report, knows that each election tells us a story and this one is no different. She joined us today to talk about what signals and trends she's looking out for and what that means for our future as a country and how we understand ourselves.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Amy. |
| 0:03.4 | Hey, Amy, it's Mary Harris. How are you? |
| 0:05.6 | Hey, good. How are you? |
| 0:07.3 | Last week, I called up Amy Walter. She's the national editor of the Cook Political Report and a host of the public radio show, The Takeaway. |
| 0:14.6 | And I called her up because I kind of needed a pep talk. |
| 0:17.9 | So midterms for you, is this like Christmas? |
| 0:21.6 | Like, what is this in your mind? |
| 0:23.1 | It's really, truly, it is better than Christmas. |
| 0:26.4 | It's better than Christmas. |
| 0:27.8 | I think you're the only American to say that right now. |
| 0:30.2 | I know. |
| 0:30.7 | I can't even tell you how excited I am. |
| 0:33.2 | I wanted to feel some of Amy's excitement. |
| 0:35.8 | With one day to go before the midterm election, |
| 0:38.7 | everyone's hot take seemed like warmed over leftovers. I'm ready for it to be over. |
| 0:44.5 | But Amy is all anticipation. Just imagine me. What I'm looking at right now is a tree, and underneath |
| 0:52.9 | it are hundreds of boxes with little |
| 0:56.4 | bows on them and cards that say, you know, California 48, Missouri Senate, and I get to open them |
| 1:05.8 | very soon. |
| 1:09.1 | I'm Mary Harris. You're listening to What Next? |
| 1:12.1 | Today, a dose of pre-midterm enthusiasm from one of the most enthusiastic journalists on the beat. |
| 1:18.4 | You may look at the polls and think it's impossible to predict what the story of this election is going to be. |
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