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Feedback request: how did you spend election night 2016?

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Ben Dreyfuss
Oct 22, 2024
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It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 8 years since election night 2016. It was one of the most surreal nights of my life. (The next day too.)

In 2020, Tommy Cragg’s and I wanted Mother Jones to do an oral history of that 24 hour period, but other people didn’t like the idea. I am not going to do a full on oral history but I am going to do a post about m…

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