
Bonus: The Surge | 45 Days from Election Day
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It’s just 45 days until election day—and the polls are telling us…a little bit of everything. In our first Slate Plus exclusive crossover, Mary sits down with one of the nation’s foremost experts on political nonsense.
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer, who writes the weekly newsletter The Surge.
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