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Episode 301Oct 17, 2020

The real “October surprise”

… was all the votes we cast along the way.

A voter fills out his ballot while early voting at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters office on October 13, 2020 in San Jose, California.
A voter fills out his ballot while early voting at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters office on October 13, 2020 in San Jose, California.
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Today we’re geeking out about early numbers from the U.S. Elections Project. Voters have already cast more than 23 million ballots, more than 16% of the 2016 turnout. Wild. Also on the docket: the latest data on women being pushed out of the workforce, Trump’s flip-flop on wildfire aid and the best Zoom class of the week.

Here’s a list of everything we talked about today:

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