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brought to you by a critical election a campaign on

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life support Critical beautiful conditions are the critical election is

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what And here potential answers are skimming thinking version All

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right well if we turn on any twenty four hour

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news station it's likely they'll be talking about an upcoming

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election as if it was the most exciting in terrifying

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thing that's ever happened in the course of human history

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Even if the election is still several years away it

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was a critical election Be an election during a national

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emergency such as a war war can be especially taxing

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for a commander in chief After all we wouldn't want

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to try running an election and a battle strategy at

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the same time But the only thing critical about elections

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in times of crisis is whether the public will lot

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or lambaste a president's bellicose behavior so we can blast

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away B is a critical election see one that is

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decided by less than three percent of the popular vote

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when election comes down to the wire like in eighteen

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eighty when garfield squeaked by with a margin of about

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eight thousand votes people are bound to get a bit

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frazzled But that's just an occupational hazard in the electrifying

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world of presidential politics right Could a critical election referred

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to d an election that decides who controls congress Will

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Every election is one that decides which party controls congress

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so that feels a tad hyperbolic right All right well

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what about e an election in which the opposition party

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wins the presidency Well dc always gets the shakes when

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the other team takes over the oval office but that's

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the whole point of having a two party system in

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the first place If it first they don't succeed while

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the other guys get to try try again which means

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that a critical election is a an election that reveals

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a party realignment or voting shift within the electorate Occasionally

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very occasionally a new party takes center stage or political

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coalition within parties switch teams and that's When things get

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critical in this fair democracy of ours option is the

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correct answer The election of nineteen thirty two when fdr

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created the famed new deal coalition was a critical election

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through political prowess or maybe just demographic luck Fdr assembled

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urban workers rural southerners immigrants catholics union members and mohr

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into one big semi happy family There ain't no party

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like a new deal coalition party because new deal coalition 00:02:21.21 --> [endTime] party includes well almost everyone yeah

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