Liberal Lagniappe

After an unplanned absence last week, Joshua and Scot are back to discuss developments in Israel/Palestine, the Chinese spy balloon, and the economic outlook for the year.

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This week, Joshua and Scott discuss the impending debt limit doom, George Santos's lies, and more!

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[Recorded January 16, 2023]
This week we have our Foreign Policy Special!
Also, the Biden Documents story.

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We return from the holidays with a discussion about the Speaker vote, the race for Louisiana Governor, the FTX scandal, and more!

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This week, we discuss the latest on the midterm elections, the changes to the Democratic Presidential Primaries, and the rightward drift of popular figures.

Updates on Arizona's 6th: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-county-certifies-election-results-court-order-rcna59702

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After being off last week, we catch up on what has changed as the votes trickled in, how polls performed in 2022, and of course what it all means for the future!

FiveThirtyEight Article we discuss: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/republicans-house-election-margin/

House Popular Vote: https://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house-charts/national-house-vote-tracker/2022

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Joshua and Scott review the 2022 Midterm Elections (so far) to discuss what happened, why, and what it means going forward.

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Tigers won! Astros won! What's next? Oh, yeah...

We're taking our last look at the midterms race by race. Plus, a little discussion of what it all means.

Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/04/trumpism-gop-democrats-midterms/
(We didn't actually get to this second one)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/06/how-close-is-the-us-to-civil-war-barbara-f-walter-stephen-march-christopher-parker

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We're back! Hopefully for good this time.

This week we tackle the global mood and trend in elections, the resolution to the UK political crisis, and our expectations for the midterms and what that will mean going forward.

Tune in next week for our Midterm Race-by-Race Special episode!

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Recorded 16 Jan 2022

Discussions about Biden's horrible very bad no good day, the conspiracy element of the GOP, and the midterms.
Alex Jones story: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/infowars-store-alex-jones_n_61d71d8fe4b0bcd2195c6562?v7
Poll discussed: https://civiqs.com/reports/2020/9/2/report-americans-pessimistic-on-time-frame-for-coronavirus-recovery
Spreadsheet of US House districts: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aAuORAonRmFAWXGo2vmzTtgYLzpPieY57wZDYvG6TEs/edit?usp=sharing

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