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When I hear historical reenactment, I think like civil war or some kind of like Lord of the Rings,

Renaissance Fair, whatever.

You're saying historical thing, the Lord of the Rings. LARPing, they're larping. whatever. Arthur Anderson who obscured the Enron D.

Like, so they're like, you play Auditor 1,

you play Auditor 2.

And they're like, okay, let's obscure the fraud

going on at Enron.

Historical reenactment might have been misleading.

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast, I'm Galen Druk.

Three months ago, as the presidential primaries were getting underway,

President Biden was trailing former President Trump in the polls nationally and in battleground states.

And concerns about his age were coming to the fore.

A special counsel report had recently come out describing him as a quote

well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. The optimistic view for Biden was that

once the presidential primaries were over and it became clear that the choice was a

2020 rematch, the polls would move in his direction. In the time since the primary has ended,

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