The election is… Actually not quite over but we have to record this episode sometime. In this episode, a breakdown of the notable winners and losers. Did we fire them all? Or… Any of them?

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Articles/Documents

• Article: Rep. Don Young, 87, tests positive for COVID-19 months after mocking seriousness of pandemic: ‘I call it the beer virus’ By Muri Assuncao, Daily News, November 13, 2020
• Article: Trump administration removes senior defense officials and installs loyalists, triggering alarm at Pentagon By Barbara Starr, Zachary Cohen and Ryan Browne, CNN, November 13, 2020
• Report: Schedule F, Diversity Training Reviews Continuing for Now By FEDweek, November 12, 2020
• Article: North Dakota nurses call for mask mandate, reject policy allowing COVID-19-positive workers to stay on job By Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, November 12, 2020
• Article: Election-reform ballot measure stays too close to call as elections workers tally more votes By James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, November 12, 2020
• Article: Senior U.S. cybersecurity official asked to resign amid Trump transition tumult By Christopher Bing, Reuters, November 12, 2020
• Article: Congress’s New Faces Include Ex-Astronaut, Citadel’s First Female Grad By Natalie Andrews, The Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2020
• Article: Puerto Rico’s statehood piques Congress’s interest post-election By Andres L. Cordova, The Hill, November 11, 2020
• Article: Pelosi floats above Democrats’ civil war By Heather Caygle and Sarah Ferris, Politico, November 11, 2020
• Article: Michigan’s Voting Flaws Were Human Errors and Outliers By Gus Burns, Governing, November 11, 2020
• Article: Exclusive: Esper, on his way out, says he was no yes man By Meghann Myers, Military Times, November 10, 2020
• Article: The Trump Administration Is Reversing More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List. By NADJA POPOVICH, LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA and KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS, The New York Times, November 10, 2020
• Article: Senate GOP lays out priorities in fiscal 2021 spending showdown By Jennifer Shutt, Roll Call, November 10, 2020
• Article: Christopher Miller, Trump’s surprise acting defense secretary, has a thin resume for the job but deep experience in counterterrorism By Dan Lamothe, Ellen Nakashima, Alex Horton, The Washington Post, November 9, 2020
• Article: There’s a plan afoot to replace the Electoral College, and your state may already be part of it By Elliot Ramos, NBC News, November 9, 2020
• Article: Corporate Democrats Are Rural America’s Biggest Losers By Jake Davis, Bryce Oats, The American Prospect, November 9, 2020
• Article: Amy Kennedy Loses Race to Rep. Jeff Van Drew, Who Switched Parties for President Trump By Virginia Chamlee, People, November 9, 2020
• Article: Donna Shalala Encapsulated Pelosi’s Embrace of Passivity as a Strategy By Eleanor Eagen, The American Prospect, November 9, 2020
• Article: Hope Lives in Georgia By David Dayen, The American Prospect, November 9, 2020
• Article: ‘A Vexing Decision’: Calif. Governor Mulls Who Will Replace Harris In Senate By Scott Shafer, npr, November 9, 2020
• Article: Win by Biden and Harris opens up California Senate seat By Bridget Bowman, Roll Call, November 7, 2020
• Article: South Carolina’s Voting Machines Are Vulnerable to Attacks By Chiara Eisner, Governing, November 6, 2020
• Article: Legislative Turnover at Lowest Level Seen Since 1920s By Alan Greeblatt, Governing, November 6, 2020
• Article: Second Georgia Senate seat headed to January runoff that could decide Senate control By Stephanie Akin, Roll Call, November 6, 2020
• Article: Florida Amendment 4 Election Results: Require Amendments to Be Approved Twice By Stephanie Saul, The New York Times, November 6, 2020
• Article: The ACA Is Becoming A Political Problem For Dems By David Sirota and Andrew Perez, The Daily Poster, November 5, 2020
• Article: Missouri voters dump never-used redistricting reforms By David A. Lieb, Associated Press, November 5, 2020
• Article: Puerto Rico inches closer to statehood, but without key GOP support By Chris Cioffi, Roll Call, November 4, 2020
• Article: North Dakota voters reject Measure 2 by wide margin By Jeremy Turley, Grand Forks Herald, November 4, 2020
• Article: 2020 election sees record high turnout with at least 159.8 million votes projected By Hannah Miao, CNBC, November 4, 2020
• Article: Nationwide Ballot Measure Results to Watch: Live Updates By Carl Smith, Tod Newcombe, Governing, November 4, 2020
• Article: Will We Ever Slay the Evil Gerrymander? By Alan Ehrenhalt, Governing, November 4, 2020
• Article: The U.S. Inability To Count Votes is a National Disgrace. And Dangerous. By Glenn Greenwald, November 4, 2020
• Article: Record ‘Dark Money’ Donations Help GOP Retake House Seats By David Moore, Sludge, November 4, 2020
• Article: With Deceptive Measure, Missouri GOP Wins Back Power to Gerrymander By Donald Shaw, Sludge, November 4, 2020
• Article: Question 2 supporters concede defeat in effort to bring ranked choice voting to Massachusetts By Nik DeCosta-Klipa, Boston.com, November 4, 2020
• Article: A QAnon Supporter Is Headed to Congress By Matthew Rosenberg, The New York Times, November 3, 2020
• Article: Eight Reasons Not to Expect Quick Election Results By Carl Smith, Governing, November 3, 2020
• Article: Former Congressman Pete Sessions to return to Washington By Michael Oder and Fallon Appleton, KBTX-TV, November 3, 2020
• Article: Qualcomm Billionaires Launch Last Minute Attack on Granddaughter’s Progressive Opponent By Donald Shaw, Sludge, November 2, 2020
• Article: Voting Itself Becomes Question for Ballot Measures By Alan Greenblatt, Governing, November 2, 2020
• Article: Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose By Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, November 1, 2020
• Article: Campaign Against ‘Dark Money’ Disclosure in Alaska Keeps Hiding Its Donors By Donald Shaw, Sludge, October 28, 2020
• Article: Salary Council appointee resigns, calls Schedule F executive order a ‘red line’ By Nicole Ogrysko, Federal News Network, October 26, 2020
• Article: Trump’s historic assault on the civil service was four years in the making By Lisa Rein, Josh Dawsey, and Toluse Olorunnipa, The Washington Post, October 23, 2020
• Executive Order on Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service The White House, October 21, 2020
• Article: ‘Stunning’ Executive Order Would Politicize Civil Service By Erich Wagner, Government Executive, October 22, 2020
• Article: Rep. Justin Amash, the ex-Republican who tussled with Trump and the GOP, reflects on what’s next By Megan Sauer, USA Today, September 26, 2020
• Article: Most Americans Don’t Have A Real Stake In The Stock Market By Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, August 31, 2020
• Article: The Stock Market Does Not Represent the U.S. Economy By Revere Journal, July 8, 2020
• Article: Health insurers’ profits topped $35B last year. Medicare Advantage is the common thread By Paige Minemyer, Fierce Healthcare, February 24, 2020
• Article: Supreme Court allows states to draw partisan political maps By Todd Ruger, Roll Call, June 27, 2019
• Article: The Atlas Of Redistricting, Georgia’s districts gerrymandered to favor Democrats By Aaron Bycoffe, Ella Koeze, David Wasserman and Julia Wolfe, FiveThirtyEight, January 25, 2018

Additional Resources

• HOUSE RESULTS – Democrats retain control of House, CNN
• Voter Analysis: Poll Results, Fox News
• Democratic President by Congressional District
• Targeted Candidates, 2020 Cycle OpenSecrets.org

Sound Clip Sources

Video: 2020 Presidential Debates: Biden says Obamacare will have a public option, ‘Bidencare’, Politico, October 22, 2020

Facebook Live Video: Republican congressional candidate caught on video making series of racist and Islamophobic remarks, Independent, June 18, 2020

Facebook Live Video: House Republican leaders condemn GOP candidate who made racist videos, Politico, June 17, 2020

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Music Presented in This Episode

Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

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