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Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Gaelin Brick.

The house passed the approximately $2 trillion bill back better bill on Friday.

Any version that passes the Senate is very likely to be amended and it's still unclear when that might happen,

although majority leader Chuck Schumer has said the goal is by Christmas.

As we've discussed on this podcast before, many of the individual provisions in the bill are popular,

but what does that mean for how the public views this package as a whole?

We're going to take a look at that today. We're also going to check in on where the redistricting process

stands around the country. About a third of states have already passed new congressional and

legislative maps that will be used over the coming decade, and many other states have maps in the

works. So is one party making significant gains through gerrymandering? And what happens if competitive

seats go extinct? And finally, it is Thanksgiving week, so we're going to reflect on what the two

parties have to be thankful for. And a note on that, because of the holiday, we'll only have one

podcast episode in your feeds this week. So here with me for this Thanksgiving edition of the 538

Politics podcast is editor-in-chief Nate Silver. Hey, Nate. Hey, everybody. Also here with us

is politics and tech reporter Kayleigh Rogers. Hey, Kayleigh. Hey. And senior elections analyst Nathaniel

Rekitayne. Nathaniel. Yeah. So how's everyone feeling about Thanksgiving? Although I know Kayleigh,

when do Canadian celebrate Thanksgiving? In October, which is much more sensible because it's not like

butted up right next to the December holidays. You have some time in between. Oh, just starting off

the podcast, throwing bombs at American holiday. But does that mean Christmas starts in mid-Actober?

Yeah, don't you want like a compressed period where you can like basically not do work for like a

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