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According to astrology mars is squaring neptune which means that from energy vampires to draining schedules you need to root out what's zapping your spirit the election is basically one big energy vampire if you think about [music] it hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast i'm gayen dro and folks... Read more

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And we see that harris has an advantage even a greater advantage than biden did on things like abortion protecting democracy healthcare and one one area where we've seen sort of real tightening is on crime and safety it seems like she's improved notably over where biden was compared to trump is that... Read more

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Ruth nathaniel walked us through literally how we got here but this was not pre-ordained i mean had there not been a debate we could still be here in september with biden um at the top of the ticket the party didn't need to rally around harris the way it did and also it probably wasn't written in the... Read more

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So abortion was mentioned a total of one time during the first debate and i think that was used as evidence that biden was incapable of sort of pivoting the conversation towards democrats strengths whereas this time around it was mentioned eight times either abortion or reproductive care and i think... Read more

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So another thing that's going to happen over the next two months is a lot of talk about polling error ruth what sources of error in this election keep you up at night oo all sources of error keep me up at night um but i will no right yeah i have small kids i'm never sleeping um there are three things... Read more

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But it does seem like there is a lot more volatility or malleability in americans perceptions of harris and she didn't do quite as much to maybe define herself as the moderate on the economy or immigration or things where she might have been seen as vulnerable like she addressed the immigration portion... Read more

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So britney i know that we have made uh you answering this question difficult by asking you to jump right on this podcast with us as soon as the debate ended but what are you hearing in the spin room about how the surrogates are trying to spin the performances of the two candidates well i mean i just... Read more

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We got a podcast full of singers yeah what part do you sing i'm a first tener usually first alto okay well we can create our own ac capella group right here on the 538 podcast we should come up with a song to do 525,600 voters okay we're not talking about love we're talking about data seasons of data... Read more

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So you know normally i try to you know drink a little bit of coffee or something before these late night podcasts maybe a diet coke but uh i honestly um i don't think i need it you're just on a natural high i don't think i need it that's that you espresso that's that me espresso that debate was me espresso... Read more

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An underrated aspect of this year's elections the british election was on july 4th and the american election is on november 5th aka guy fox day that's true oh yeah y fireworks for britain in america and then fireworks for america in britain okay well somebody just described our last round of polling... Read more

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We have seen a trend in the cycle i mean it was more exacerbated under biden but i think we're still seeing it with harris is that there's softness amongst young voters and democrats seem to be holding up decently well with older voters and you know if we're thinking about oh what do people remember... Read more

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Well yeah it's also interesting because while she is improving notably with these groups she's in many cases still shy of where biden was in 2020 with these groups whether it's young voters or latino voters and also when you look at some of the states where she's turned around democrats lot like it... Read more