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Sep 2024
34m 8s

Summer Is Over. Election Season Is Here.

ABC News, 538, FiveThirtyEight, Galen Druke
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Labor Day is behind us and the conventional final stretch of the 2024 presidential campaign is here. There will be a rush of advertising, debates, more urgent attention paid to jobs reports, and October surprises. In this installment of the 538 Politics podcast, we look at where we are in the campaign and how we got here. In the second episode this week, we' ... Show More
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