There's a kind of mood that's turned where people are like yes, we're past our peak in a sense.

And that for a European immigrant in the United States is very unusual, right?

Because it was what still appeals many people to come here and it's

almost French in a sense. I mean the French were always pessimistic.

Ooh, savage, savage. Savage.

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast, I'm Gailin Druk, and there are more people voting in 2024 than ever before. This year elections are taking place in at least 64 countries as well as the European Union

totaling almost half of the world's population.

Now, not all of these elections are democratic,

they fall on a spectrum,

and many have already happened. Most recently there were

elections in India, Mexico, and the European Union and a couple like snap

elections in France and the UK are coming up soon and then there is of course this

fall our election here in the United States in case you forgot. Today we're going to

talk about the trends that we're seeing around the world in terms of how voters have been

behaving and whether that means anything for us here in the US.

If you remember back to the summer of 2016, in fact the early days of this podcast, some

suggested that Brexit's victory was an early indicator that Trump could be

successful. Others disagreed, but either way, although the throughline

wasn't perfect, there were at least some commonalities in the trends that led to both.

This year it looks like there are feelings of deep dissatisfaction

across the globe. According to an international poll of 24 Democratic countries

conducted by the AP earlier this year, a median of 59% say they were

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