Joe biden support has slipped and rrelizabeth ens campaign is trlosing ouble after a poor showing in New Hampshire and iowa. E candidatesturning their attention to South Carolina and nevada, with large embers of black and latino voters. Decided to skip the early g states and poor hundreds of millions of dollars on ads in california and other states. Here to discuss this are Paul Mitchell the Vice President of Political Data inc. And joining us from las vegas is the election reporter. Welcome. Thank you for having us. Lets start thyou. It has been busy. Ar we more than a week away from the nevada caucuses although somestart to vote this weekend. How does it feel . People are excited to get to participate in this process. Nevada is the first the first earlystage to participate in the process with d latino 10 Asian American and 10 black. Folks are excited to see how the candidates do among a diverse population. On the other hand, folks are nervous given what happened in iowa because there is a daucus in ne we were planning to use two apps for the caucus process and that did not ll so in iowa and folks are nervous about how it will play out. Tell me about that. We heard that there is some thing around by the Democratic Party terms of how they want to do the technology because of concerns. Has that been set at this point we found ttt a bit more about the process so this week the democrats released the details about how early voting and the caucus process will work and how they ll rely on the use of apps. Instead of using an ipad app that will have scannae paper ballots. It will be a little more anal method although the balance will be scanned into a system e and ta will be stored in a cloud and transmitted to homes on caucus day. The interesting thing here is that you cast your votes early buur preferences go back to your home precinct to be counted as if you were there d purpose on caucus day. Democrats will use a calculator on an ipad to float the data back me the precinct on caucus day. Paul, you are a numbers person. Does that sound reasonable . Its interesting. In california is foreign to us and we ve elections ruby the state. People are at Election Administrators that do this yearround and local and statewide elections and they are suited to dealing with this process. To me, it is somebody who came up in california ections almost laughable that a state party is running a caucus in iowa that is this important. That is not the actual statdo g it. Is very different for us. Yes. Paul, ll15 n already have their ballots. The official primary isnt until march third. To think what happens in nevada and South Carolina will impact people or will people have voted and it may no make th big of a difference . To put it in context that is 15 million of the 20 million. Three quarters of the registered voters are w in systems where they are eit asking to vote by mail or they are switching to vote by mail stem where they can vote at the boat centers if they. Need what this means is that as it as a time function where right now we see over 650,000 people have cast their ballots. By monday or tuesday next week probably over 1 million. Thatpopulation of ters is not going to be influenced by what happens in nevada or South Carolina. Our rejectns are that by the time nevada happens a quarter of californias total electorate will have cast bathe ots. Of the time South Carolina happens we will be 45 of voters in the primary that have cast their ballots. If your goal as the candidate is to win South Carolina and diving to californiaon ection day, that pool will be halfempty. Not as comfortable. Megan, lets go back to you. There will be people who wait until the last minute to fill out theiabsentee ballots. And you poll came out today putting adnders in the followed by biden and worn. How does that line up with what you are hearing . Obviously understanding that its fluid, do you think what happened in iowa and New Hampshire is impactmbg the s at this point . Definitely does have an impact. We would like to say that we are totally influenced by anyone elses decisions but to r tell the h, momentum coming out of iowa and New Hampshire does matter and it will make a diffence on the ce here. We are seeing support for rn sanders and we thought before iowa and New Hampshire. He was neck in neck with joe in bidethe polls. He has the strongest bigger than thother teams. Biden will have 130. Buttigieg has about 100. He has a massive presence and that will be a huge boost in the state coming off those successes in iowa and New Hampshire. It will beinteresting tosee how that carries over to the other candidates. Biden is one we are keeping a close eye on because he was pulling, pulling so well. He polls well among voters of color but how will at change after his performance in iowa and hampshire . We will keep an eye on this. I dont know if it was a disappointment but yesterday you wethere when this union in nevada decided not to endorse anyone. This comes after they put out a flower, a flyer where they were attackin Bernie Sanders planned. In some ways it feels like the bigges lo r might bebiden. Is that fair . A lot of folks are reading it that way. Biden has a longstanding relationship with the Culinary Union. In the nonendorsement announcementeayesterday the rer mentioned joe biden, the only candidate she mentioned by namecalling him a good friend. A lot of folks excted the endorsement should they have chosen to go that way. I think folks are viewing this as a leveling of the Playing Field especially among candidates that didnt support medicare for all. The Culinary Union doesnt like medicare for all. It is leveling of the Playing Field for the candidates who the Culinary Union might endorse. Now it is up for grabs and they can court the ion members without any endorsement to worry about. We hear a lot of stories in cafornia about an exodus leaving for states like utah and nevada. Any sense thatthat is changing the feel of the electorate there . Yes, in some ways yes and someways no. In one way weve seen this especially in northern nevada and influx of folks om the bay area to reno. We can e it in the politics of reno. It is still considered purple. The left in reno is a little of the stand i think we are st seeing some overlap there with folks coming for the tech jobs n that are g in northern nevada and there is a relationship there, a link between northern californiad northern nevada. It has a difference. It is changihi the demogr of the state as well. Has an impact. Sincreasing. Speaking about the population, paul, have a huge ovulation here. A Huge Population of independence im cuous how you think this will shape inks especially given the elephant in the room, michael bloomberg. He isnt, i trying to get in the rar on sutuesday. This is interesting because as e u know democratic primaries opened mean that non partisans can elect to get a president ial ballot but they need to request it. Remember how i said that three quarters of the population is doing ballot by mail . How does a person voting imail do this by filling out a postcard that was mail between year. Giving and christmas last a lot of voters, foretold, 4. 2 million nonpartisan got the cards and 370,000. Returned th thats all . 9 . So, you have 91 of nonpartisan ballot. Ho have been mailed a when thopen the ballot there is no president ial race in the ballot. To they have either request a new one or go vote in person to get the right ballot and that is a huge problem. We are doing an analysis of the voters turning in their ballots without having completed the president ial portion. Its sad to see the reasons they said they were not ab to vote. A lot of misinformation and confusion. That could impact a candidate such as bloomberor sanders who did well among the nonpartisan base and 2016. It could negatively impact their ability to do well in california if they are not able to capture those nonpartisan voters, the Fastest Growing part of our electorate. Simply because of the paperwork thing. Paul, it took a while to figure out iowa. No california is known for quick vote counting. When will we have the results . We will tha bifurcate. As a result, we will have elthe tion night results and then we will have the technical winner after three weeks or a month of ballots counting. The delicate. Yes, the Election Night vote on tuesday wenight and esday morning will be people who voted early and people who voted in person at the polling l place. S in the mail that need to be verified, a lot of othe ballots will take weeks to count. What is most important is whda wins tunight. You should get your ballot in early. Megan, back to you. How soon do we think the nevada caucus results will be public . We hope a couple of hours. E caucus is at noon so we hope tofind out by early evening. Have this in place before. I think it remains to be seen but we definitely hope for sooner than in iowa. All right. We will loforward to these results. Thank you inrecent years tech giants like facebook and google have reckoned with massive data breaches and anger over disturbing content. There is a culture of Silicon Valley, a maledominated workplace that austin praises the pursuit of profit over the principles of equity and diversity. Now, and insiders account of life in a startup. Joining me now is this author, anna weiner. Thank you for bein you for having me. You said this is not meant to be an indictnt but is not a love letter, either. Tell us what it is. What do you hope the readers take away . The book is about my time working at startups, one in new york and two in san francisco. I hope reflects my experience and follows a trajectory of disillusionment and explains why someone like me might ll hard for this industry and why it might not be all that it was promised be. I dont wanted tobe a tellall. That would not be emotionally honest. Its a memoir. For me it was an emotional truth. You said its not a tellall and you goout of your way to protect the names of some of these companies. I assume it is r legal reasons. I wonder what the editorial decision was. Y not name amazon and things like that . It was a stylistic choice. Largely because i wanted to emphasize what the companies do. They have become resolent. They are considered infrastructure in peoples daily lives but its important to remember that facebook is an ad ad network. Google is another amazon is a corporation that expresses limonopostic tendencies. For what im writing about which is culture, a lot of what i experienced is not specific to any y. One comp it has to do with the incentivsi of the ss model and the norms in Silicon Valley. I wanted to point to a systemic story, a structural story, rather than a strictly individual one. Yes. One thing that struck me is the selfcreated isolation in th industry. As an outsider i noticed that you have these campuses where llu can essentgo and do everything. You go, you dont go out to lunch. You can go to the gym and the laundry. Do you think that is part of the culture . It seems a little n ironic considthe Companies Like facebook were created to bring us together. I think facebook brings facebook employees together, certainly. Ive never worked for one of those rge corporations. Not in a campus. Offices in the city. My experience would be working at a 20 startup doing really well. They had venture funding, etc. My experiences was that it was allencompassing and i took pleasure in that. I was 25 and moved her without knowing people. I li my coworkers. I enjoyed the social life and the professional life which in your 20s can be fun. After six months you realize that the bleed between personal and professional is not always to the employees benefit. For me it took a while for that to sink in. The book is largely about that. It can be lot of experience. For a young and they are building a life. Rit . Does that also lend itself to the diversity problems . A lot about racial diversity and gender politics and how a man or woman if you are in your 30s and 40s with the family the lture can limiting. Absolutely. Part of the story that ey are told about itself over the years is that its different. That its an industry that does things differently and its irreverent and iconoclastic and run on the confidence of inexperience. En you have industries or companies with new rus or a lack of processes or a lack of structure, it inherits the problems of the outside World Without a way for pe le to be accountable. So, in terms raof sm or sexism you end up seeing the replacement of ructure or organization with social relationships and social preferences. If you look at the industry and look at who is in leadership in Silicon Valley, for the most part it is quite homogenous and doesnt reflectechnical superiority or business savvy. It has more to do with the social dynamics at play. It atrikes me there is a sense that Silicon Valley has exceptionalism in urthe cu jock in the burke about how it doesnt associate with productivity and working 24 hours a day and how nobody talked about the a whistleblower almost a decade ago. What is itabout that . In an industry that is literly tepromulgad by data, they are ignoring the data. Isnt that and irony . The thing about data is that its incredibly flexible. It tells a story and stories can be manipulated. I think that the ceptionalism is another narrative a highly individualistic narrative. E roots are libertarian and this is a very Silicon Valley narrative. With that strengthof individualism, who does that serve . To ose benefit . What inequities does it help cover or conceal . I think that that ties into the her questions of diversity and sexism and racism. Ageism as well. E industry is at least in the startup world s hard take the risk of working for an unknown company that can fail if you dont have some sort of economic support. You fijoined your t startup in the early 2010s and its been the better part of a e de. Have you seen changes in some of the things you talked about . I think things are changing. I think the conversation around diversity and sinclusion tremendously improved since i started. I started in 2013 and when i was looking for jobs in 2012 the conversation about women was mostly about white women. I think it has shifted raer quickly. My question with this alys is, where are the resources going . Who has funding . Who has agency inside the organizations for there to be a meaningful ship in ch in the world at large i thin would mean revisiting the business model. It would mean revisiting who actually is able to relinqsh power and who is willing to relinquish power. Right now there are not incentives for that so people ibare doing incr hard work. Fothank you coming in. Thank you for having me. Classes of champagne and decadent desserts with chocolat restaurant reservations we booked weeks in advance. S this valentineday why not spice things up by wiking dumplingth fillings that appeal to the pickiest pallets are making pasta from scratch with flour, butter, and i of culinary adventure . Joing me now is this food editor from sunset magaze. Thank you for coming in. Lets start by getting personal. Full disclosure, valentines day was the first date with my husband 20 years ago. We really go out because its such a thing. Lets start with you. Where do you stand on is it overblown or good opportunities to connect . I am inprovales day. A lot of things more than anything i like the idea of ticking time to express to people that they matter to you and thatyou careabout them. I am someone who feels strongly that you shouldnt feel obligated to do the thing that is expected because it is happening such as going out nga spenhuge amount of money and booking restaurants weeks in advance. Wa find the thats best for you to express how you care about somebody. Thats fine with me. I know u have some fun valentines day in the whpast. Is a quirky one . A few years ago when i was single i was on thphone ani saw an article Something Like 18 Grilled Cheese sdwiches that are better than a boyfriend. Pictures of different Grilled Cheese sandwiches. I was reading it and a coworker walked by and i showed him and said thisis funny. Not even taking about valentines day. Just meshowing ing on my this friend looked at it and got a look in his eyes. Du he said , lets do it. We went to to the Grocery Store in the middle of the day and got all referred kinds of cheeses and fillings. We gathered friends and made Grilled Cheese sandwichesvafor ntines day. It was entertaining and wholesome and fun. Itwasnt like we were sad and lonely. We had a good time. The clichcis usually french or italian food and heav dessert anchampagne. Any other ideas . Those are avall foods. Yes, you dont want to eat a bo of pasta because you will feel sleepy, not romantic. People do that because it feels indulgent and something you may not do every day so you are sharing something specsol with body. You dont have to do that. A lot of things that are fun you can together. You could make pasta dumplings. There are a variety of ways to make dinner together and not just take a nap. If you need orwant toyou can include your children. Yes, dumpling making is fun and easy. You get the fillings, one for each picky person and go for it. Its fine. Allen, you produced a podcast about the juncture of food and race. How do you see that going beyond these traditional European Food ideas . Its interesting the way think about food. There may have been a time when japanese food wasnt considered fancy or indulgent and now you can go to somewhere expensive and shell out huge ounts of money. With any of these things, what we think of as fancy and proper and appropriatet its like rooted in a major world religion like christmas. Yes, there is no wrong doway to it. Food can be fancy. Who can sple. It is flexible and you dont feel like you have to do something. Ellen, what is your ideal valentines day . I look a but it is fun to have an excuse to make a thick rib eye. That is fun for me. I usually go that route. You could spend the money you would spend on going out on more good stuff at home. I like that. And alked about dumplings pasta. Any other ideas . Its already valentines day but if they want to create a special memory, anything you uld suggest to experiment with . As ellen pointed out making Something Like dumplings could be fun. Anything where you can do something together thats not intimidating, something where you can level it out a little bit. It could be dumplings are pasta or a simple cake. Something that doesnt ke too long, either. The worst thing that could happen is if you start a project thats too long and before you know it its hungry and its 9 30. Yes, thats the worst case ys scenario. Alget appetizer. Get some cheese. I like that. Thwhole night a fun opportunity. The other big part of valentines day are the drinks. We think of champagne and maybe red wine as the traditional ones. Ellen, you brought us some wine to talk about and drive. Tell us how these are different from champagne. The wines are all natural sparkling. It is gnnot cham these are american wines and they are not champagne. They must be from the champagne region of france to champagne. Is it less bubbly . No, but they have different method. Champagne is fermented twice and this is one fermentation. Often since they e natural it means there is a different fermentation process with less sulfides and intervention and it can be a little edmore untable. Sometimes it can be funky. A different level of effervescence. It is fun. Ese are allamerican. I wrote about this in sunset magazine. It is three. 4 alcohol. 3. 4 alcohol. I like that. I will give this a try. Cheers. Thank you for bringi these in. Thats nic its not as sweet as champagne. Yes, its drive. Could it be lessof a hangover . One could hope. It depends on how much you drink. Thank you both so much for coming in. Happy valentines day. Thank yo cheers. I will do it for us. As always you can find more coverage at kqed. No org. Thank you usfor joining 1995s sense and sensibility based on the jane austen novel stars Emma Thompson and kate winslet. 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