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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Friday December 11th, 2020. I'm John

Puthhorns, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always, senior writer Christine Rosen,

hi Christine. Hi John. Associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah.

John. Executive editor Abe Greenwald, hi Abe.

Hi John. And joining us today, author, commentary roastee,

and a host of a new wonderful new podcast called Post-Corona, our friend Dan Seenor. Hi Dan.

Hi John. I'm actually very excited to be able to say hi John. I listened to you guys like multiple

times a week say hi John. And now I get to say hi John. Can I also talk about where we encourage you to

to visit the site where you get a few free reads and then we ask you to subscribe. Absolutely.

Commentary at www.hazard.com. Beautiful and you get that if you subscribe you get a beautifully

published designed magazine in your mailbox. How many times a year? 11 times a year.

Dan is the best prepared guest ever. It's amazing. See John you were just lamenting how you'd

lack uniformity in your introduction. And now clearly I have no uniformity that's correct.

That's correct. You know and also history lacks uniformity. Noah was just pointing out I mentioned

this the other day that with all of this talk about the efforts to steal our democracy in the aftermath of

the 2020 election that Noah was just being forcibly recalled to him the fact that in 2016 in

December of 2016 when the electoral college met to affirm the vote total and the victory of Donald

Trump that in fact though he had one 306 electoral votes on election night based on the way that the

states allocate the vote and who won those states that in fact when the dust had cleared on

electoral college voting day Donald Trump's the number of electors who voted for Trump was 304

not 306 and that an additional five electors on the democratic side did not vote for Hillary Clinton

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