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A COVID update including the Gov of California violating his own guidelines in opulent style, New York's most hilarious rivalry continuing to affect the state and a study of all 50 states and how they've governed the crisis.


Mailbag! Including a bizarre scenario where Trump becomes Secretary of State. Also, it weirdly makes sense.


Interview with Ganesh Sitaraman and Daniel Epps about ways to reform the Supreme Court that you've never heard of.


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Oxford Covid Study:
https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/coronavirus-government-response-tracker


DMX:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQcTmBevae2jDeFEZ6VEQPw

Welcome! You've been transported to vacation! Want me to get you drink from the pool bar?


Ossoff vs. Perdue and Warnock vs. Loeffler have put out advertisements and it's VERY clear how they are running. We dissect exactly how the Democrats hope to do what Biden just did and how the GOP is trying to prevent it.


Trump is talking about running in 2024 before he has conceded in 2020. Welcome news for MAGA Nation, less than stellar news for the GOP hopefuls behind him.


J.D. Durkin of Cheddar joins us to talk about the Stop The Steal / Biden Celebration events in Philly, the media's newest fascination Marjorie Taylor Greene and congressional gossip including how AOC might make it to the senate WITHOUT ripping the party in half by primarying Chuck Schumer.

A very South Florida story of candidates running for State Senate solely to distract from the Democrat. Mailbag! Including questions about who is a blue collar voter? Are we on the path to autocracy? Was this election REALLY "close?" Interview with Musa al-Gharbi about the trends of the Democrats becoming more white and affluent and the Republicans gaining minority working class voters. Also, why the media and academia can't accurately describe what's happening!


Articles referenced in the episode:


Miami Mystery Candidates: https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/11/11/evidence-suggests-several-state-senate-candidates-were-plants-funded-by-dark-money/


Musa al-Gharbi:


The Democratic Party is Facing a Demographic Crisis: https://theconversation.com/the-democratic-party-is-facing-a-demographic-crisis-72948
Race and the Race for the White House: On Social Research in the Age of Trump: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/n8bkh
The Trump vote is rising among Blacks and Hispanics, despite the conventional wisdom: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-vote-rising-among-blacks-hispanics-despite-conventional-wisdom-ncna1245787
Trump voters haven't been driven by racism. If anything, it has repelled them: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-voters-haven-t-been-motivated-racism-if-anything-it-ncna1236027
Who Gets to Define What's Racist? https://contexts.org/blog/who-gets-to-define-whats-racist/
Trump mentions in modern journalism: https://www.cjr.org/author/musa-al-gharbi

The definitive way to know that the recounts don't have enough gas in the tank to make a difference. Which state polls were embarrassing but correct? Which were actually dead on? Does Justin REALLY owe Biden an apology? Ice Cream Social podcast drops by to update us on how Vegas is (and isn't) recovering. Andrew Heaton makes his farewell appearance of the 2020 season in a blaze of glory dropping crazy names in stories about his time at Fox News.

Georgia turns blue... barely. Pennsylvania flips on Philadelphia. Biden looks like the winner and the Trump campaign is almost out of ammo. What does the devolution of presidential power look like? We're watching it real time. Kevin Ryan on journalism, society and more in our emerging Post-Trump world.

Biden is leading, Trump is suing and no one has a mandate. Florida went more for Trump in '20 than in '16, a look at why it happened by the numbers. Cocaine Mitch looks like he's protected his Senate majority despite massive cash opposition. Lessons from our evolving election with Andrew Heaton of the Political Orphanage.