Hope for the best.

Extract the worst.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

A of furs.

The way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst.

Welcome to the

the Commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Monday, October 21st,

2024. I am John Puthord's the editor of Commentary magazine with me as always

executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe, hi Abe. Hi, John. And senior editor Seth Mandel,

hi Seth. Hi, Hi Seth,

yeah just the three of us today

and guess what the race is tied.

I don't know if you,

breaking news, hottest news in the world, polling all weekend showing a tide race,

although according to the prognosticators both at 538 and of course are the

legendary Nate Silver all have the percentage odds of Trump beating Harris edging up to the astonishing

somewhere between 52 and 54 percent nonetheless since those same prognosticators in there with their models, their

models being like as I think I've compared them before to the M5, the computer on Star Trek whose owner dissociates himself

from his own computer and is constantly saying things like no don't touch the

M5 the M5 will and the M5 tries to take over the enterprise and kill everybody

they talk about the model as though the model is some kind of an independent living, breathing creature like the Frankenstein monster, whereas it's of course only a bunch of inputs that they themselves created to put in the model.

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