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Election Sunday: Election Night Info w/ Jad Abumrad

Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 8 a.m.

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It\\u2019s November 1st. On this Sunday before election day, we mix it up a bit and look at number of moments from history that teach us about how election results have been conveyed, from the origins of \\u201cnews flash\\u201d to the New York Times\\u2019 election-night needle.

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Jody and Niki are joined by Jad Abumrad of WNYC\\u2019s Radiolab to discuss how the pressure to get results as quickly as possible has increased over the last century, and how that could complicate things for 2020\\u2019s very a-historical election.

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Find a transcript of this episode at: https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory

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