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What I Learned From The 2022 Midterms

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Do You Think the Media Has Changed the Way It Analyzes Politics?

The media covered the 2016 election as something that was a like an absolute spectacle. But I don't think we were like, okay, this person seems like they might flat Democrat ignorems in a way that is like threatening to constitution or constitutional republic. Do you recite stump speeches in your sleep? Like to fall asleep at night? No. Unlike our former colleague, Carrie Anton, who used to watch old election campaigns on YouTube as a way to lull himself to sleep. The one thing I will cop to doing is watching concession speeches because they're the most like human moments and some of them are actually written beautifully.

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