The true climaxes of the 2020 election cycle — the double Senate runoff races in Georgia — were quickly overshadowed by the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In this installment of Model Talk on the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Nate Silver and Galen Druke look back at the results of those runoffs and discuss what the Democratic wins say about polling and what they mean for elections going forward.

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