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We're going to make a yearbook, and we're doing superlatives.

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Hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast.

I'm Gailen Droke, and we love measuring things here at 538.

So how do you measure a year? By the way, yes, we have nearly made it to the end of this one. So happy holidays, Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy New Year, all of the above.

If you work at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, maybe you measure it in 12 months' worth of inflation data, so 2.7% increase in prices.

If you're interested in elections, maybe it's that a record-breaking 4 billion people lived

in countries that held elections this year, more than half of the world's population.

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