A week after Election Day, here’s what to keep an eye on


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Nov 10 2020 31 mins   1.9k
You’d be forgiven for feeling like this election has been going on forever. Early voting started over a month ago in some states. The media couldn’t project a winner until three days ago, and it’s not over yet. There’s the Georgia runoffs, the Trump campaign’s lawsuits and basless allegations of voter fraud, plus the searching about what the polls got wrong. Today Kimberly Adams joins us to sort through all this. We’ll discuss her key takeaways from the election, what it means for the economy, which storylines need a little more nuance and who’s making money off it all. Here’s a list of everything we talked about today (if these links don’t work, try our episode page on makemesmart.org: Adams’ latest for us: “Change in the White House means changing plans for some businesses” “No, This Election Did Not Go ‘Smoothly‘” from Slate “False claims that Biden ‘lost’ Pennsylvania surge, and tech companies struggle to keep up.” from The New York Times “A little-known Trump appointee is in charge of handing transition resources to Biden — and she isn’t budging” from The Washington Post This campaign spending dashboard “A Peculiar Way to Pick a President” from The New York Times’ podcast “The Daily”