An Hour-By-Hour Guide To Election Night

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

Politics, News

4.6 • 20.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

At long last, Election Day is upon us. In this final pre-results episode, the crew shares a guide for what to expect on election night — from the first poll closures in Indiana, to the last poll closures in Alaska. They set expectations for how long the vote may take to tally and which counties to keep an eye on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.
0:11.5	I'm Gailen Drook, and today is the day we have had marked on our calendars for oh so long.
0:18.4	It is finally here, November 5th, my birthday.
0:23.3	And I am so glad there's nothing else that can distract from my special date.
0:29.8	Yeah, we're doing like a rager later, right?
0:31.9	You know, uh, uh, I mean, we have nothing else to do.
0:35.4	Nothing else going on.
0:36.4	I totally expect it.
0:37.0	Literally all of 538 gathered together for this day.
0:40.7	For Galen's birthday.
0:41.5	We're ordering pizza all together.
0:43.7	We're going to be staying late into the night here doing very exciting things.
0:48.8	So, yeah, all of that tracks.
0:50.4	Sorry, actually, I'm getting the producers in my ear right now saying that actually today is
0:55.8	the Tuesday after the first
0:57.9	Monday in November
0:59.5	in an even numbered
1:01.9	year. And I guess, okay,
1:04.2	so actually, I guess that means there are two
1:05.9	big events happening today, folks.
1:08.2	It is my birthday. It is
1:09.9	also election day 2024. Democracy is happening.
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