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Vote 2018 Election Podcast

State-by-state election coverage with political journalists across America

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There is nothing more dangerous than an educated voter. The Vote 2018 Election Podcast will give you the insight you need to make an informed decision at the polls this year. We'll take you state to state to learn about all of the biggest upcoming races in the 2018 mid-term election year, hearing from political journalists from all over the nation for a fact-based discussion about our upcoming races. We provide the information, you make the decision. #VOTE2018
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In the digital era, information and the social media platforms used to spread it have become weapons of choice for those seeking to short circuit American democracy. Yahoo News' new weekly podcast Bots & Ballots explores the intersection of politics and technology as told by those in Washington, DC, and Silicon Valley trying to prevent a repeat of the infiltration of the 2016 presidential election. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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How to Win Arguments with Numbers

How to Win Arguments with Numbers

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How can we use numbers and statistics to understand the modern world? Find out in this podcast from the University of Kent's Q-Step centre. Each episode we talk to expert researchers about their work and expertise. In this series we follow the build up to the 2017 General Election.
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Sachin Narayan is the founder and former CEO of Cathartic, a non profit company that focuses on preventative health of under-resourced populations. He is recent graduate from the University of Southern California and is matriculating as an MS1 this fall at the Stanford School of Medicine. In this captivating podcast episode, join me as I sit down w…
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Chris Ekstam is a physician and entrepreneur living in Texas. After college at the University of Delaware, he went to New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and then did residency in Anesthesiology at Yale New Haven Hospital. In addition to practicing anesthesiology, he owns a patent for a medical invention he created. Chris shares his journey fr…
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Collin Kachel is an educator in Wisconsin, teaching tech education, automotives, robotics, machining, welding, electronics, graphic arts, computer aided design and drafting. He shares his thoughts on the impact of tech (smartphones as an example) on our well-being and the direction society is headed. In this 90 minute podcast, we go deep covering t…
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#33 In this episode we explore an old old topic from waaaaay back. The Mueller investigation that dug into the Trump/Russia accusations that turned out to be false. Mueller testified on the hill this past week and revealed absolutely nothing...kind of. Election 2020 is upon us with the Democratic primaries in full swing. One of about 67k candidates…
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#32 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is the boss of the Green New Deal. Get to work and save the planet no matter what the cost! Jussie Smollett becomes CEO of Victim, INC to capitalize in the emerging market if hoax hate crimes. Is there a silver lining? As promised, link to USA Today Op Ed: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/22/jussie-s…
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#31 2018 Elections are finally over, check out our election analysis. We explore the GOP and Trump's next moves and opine who we think are the real winners and losers. On to 2020! On a separate but related topic, we discuss voting strategies and the mindset of partisans -- which begs to question: Should all people be voting? Does the privilege of l…
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GO VOTE! NO EXCUSES! What is up California? Today is November 6, 2018 and the most important midterms of our lives is here. Please go out and exercise your right to vote. Don’t forget that your voice matters. The polls are open late and you have a federal right to get be released from your job for an hour to go and vote. Even if you are too young t…
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This is a special episode because I want to share a story with you, it’s a story about Skakti Patel, an immigrant from Zambia who now lives and works in California. Here’s the thing though, he’s been here since he was 5 years old and he’s a legal resident here. His status is called being a DACA recipient. Shakti and I talk about how he came to the …
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In this season we look at different issues surrounding elections. In the seventh episode we talk to Joshua Townsley from the University of Kent about campaigning. There is lots of research about campaigning in politics, but what do we actually know about its effectiveness. We talk about how parties aim to mobilise their supporters and the impact of…
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Joe Hall is the Chief Technologist at Center for Democracy & Technology, an organization that promotes free expression online, privacy and tries to put controls on government surveillance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri…
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In this season we look at different issues surrounding elections. In the sixth episode we talk to Dr. Erik Gahner Larsen from the University of Kent about opinion polling. How do opinion polls work and how do they benefit our understanding of human behaviour. We discuss in particular how the media can improve at reporting polls around election time…
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HOW TO SAVE MONEY FOR TEENAGERS: BE DEBT FREE AND FRUGAL LIVING This week I get into a hot topic: money. Everybody has been asking about it. “What do we need to know about money and taxes?” Music Intro: Title: Solar Flares Artist: Silent Partner Genre: Dance & Electronic Mood: Solar Flares – Silent Partner https://youtu.be/h9bqn5Q3jVI Main Title: D…
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Michael Daniel talks about what Obama could have done to respond to Russia and about cyberwars bleeding into the real world See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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In this season we look at different issues surrounding elections. In the fifth episode we talk to Professor Robert S. Erikson from Columbia University about the upcoming US Midterm Elections. With all 435 seats in the house of representatives and 35 seats in the senate being contested, there are a range of possible outcomes, all of which would have…
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Bill Browder made billions in post-Soviet Russia. Then his lawyer was murdered and he became an activist. The man behind the Magnitsky Act talks Putin, Donald Trump and Congress. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-no…
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In this season we look at different issues surrounding elections. In the fourth episode we talk to Professor Amanda Bittner from Memorial University about leaders of political parties. From an outsider perspective it seem obvious that who leads a party would matter to voters. However the research on this does not always show that this is the case. …
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"Donald Trump will be the last human president," Scott Adams Tweeted recently. The Dilbert cartoonist talks about Google, Facebook and Twitter and why he thinks the companies are too liberal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/…
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In this season we look at different issues surrounding elections. In the third episode we talk to Professor Shane Singh from the University of Georgia about compulsory voting. It has been implemented in many democracies, from Australia to Brazil, but what exactly is it, what forms can it take, and how does it affect voters and political parties?The…
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Do conservatives have legitimate complaints about the social networks or are they merely gaming the refs by pretending they do? A fact-check of a Think Progress article has liberals crying foul. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.c…
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In this season we look at different issues surrounding elections. In the second episode we talk to Dr. Ruth Dassonneville from Université de Montréal about the changing relationship between voters and parties. We look into how voting behaviour has changed over the last few decades. Election results are more unpredictable now, with parties having le…
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Bradley Tusk ran Michael Bloomberg's campaign, he also busted through regulation for tech companies like FanDuel and Uber. Tusk talks about fixing politics with cell phone votes and regulation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.co…
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In this season we look at different issues surrounding elections. In the first episode we talk to Professor Matthew Goodwin from the University of Kent about Populism. We look into how he came to study this topic and what current research can tell us about Brexit, Trump, the rise of the far-right in Europe, and other related phenomena. The Universi…
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Jake Sullivan was senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's campaign and witnessed Russia's attempts to intervene in our election firsthand. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo, talks about the Obama administration's response to Putin's actions in the 2016 presidential election. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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#30 Finally numero 30 is out. You wouldn't believe the amount of technical difficulties we had with this one. Don't mind some of the audio issues - I tried my best to clean it up. We cover a not so controversial, controversial topic: the legalization of marijuana. It's inevitable, but what will we have to come to terms with as a society? Are there …
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Rep. Denny Heck, a member of the House intelligence committee, talks about the end of the Trump presidency. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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We have a new season coming your way soon. In it we talk to researchers about issues in contemporary elections and ask the question, how is democracy holding up, and is it changing? How to Win Arguments is a podcast produced by the University of Kent's Q-Step Centre. It explores how we can, and do, use numbers and statistics to understand the moder…
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Kim Zetter, author of "Countdown to Zero Day," discusses a case of a missing server in Georgia's election system and David Cross, a lawyer with Morrison & Foerster, talks about a lawsuit against the state to get Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to adopt paper ballots. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Polic…
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Alexander Malkevich, the editor of USA Really, a website with ties to the Russian groups indicted by Robert Mueller, says his website isn't fake news. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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Science fiction author and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow says Facebook helped Trump's campaign connect with tiny, toxic demographics. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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Clint Watts is a former FBI officer who watched Russia's disinformation campaign for the 2016 election develop. He talks about what we can expect for 2018. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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Adam Fisher, author of "Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom," talks about the libertarian roots of tech and how the Valley ended up (nearly) all-in on Clinton in 2016. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.c…
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Oren Falkowitz, CEO of Area 1 Security and a former NSA official, walks through the DNC hack and concludes it wasn't novel in its sophistication. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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Barbara Simons is a computer scientist—and she doesn't trust our voting computers. States without paper ballots could be hacked without us ever knowing. And we do know that Russia probed our defenses in 2016. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at h…
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A conversation with Angie Drobnic Holan, Editor of PolitiFact, about how lies and misinformation can clog the conversation and keep out the real news and how Facebook and Google are helping fact-checkers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https…
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#29 What's really happening on our borders? Are children being separated from families? Is Trump to blame? Get the facts about illegal immigration. Recent HUGE -- believe me -- Supreme Court Rulings! SCOTUS picks are so so important. What do Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the baker that refused to make a custom cake for a gay wedding have in common? Al…
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Adam Sharp, Twitter’s former head of news, says it's being left to companies to fight online propaganda. And Representative Derek Kilmer on the chances the Honest Ads Act will pass before the elections. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:/…
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Samuel Woolley, Director of the Digital Intelligence (DigIntel) Lab, Institute for the Future, talks about bots — foreign and domestic — and how they are poisoning political conversation around the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https…
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#28 The long-awaited return of The Podcast Without a Name. In our triumphant return from a two-month hiatus, we cover the Intellectual Dark Web, the NFL's kneeling ban, and the phenomenon of high profile people lying about police interactions. Who are the "members" of the Intellectual Dark Web and why do they even exist. See: http://intellectualdar…
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Ron Hansen of The Arizona Republic joins me to discuss the special election for the seat previously held by Republican Trent Franks, who resigned due to sexual misconduct allegations. The race is heating up and election night is April 24th!By State-by-state election coverage with political journalists across America
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#27 Rich and Joe bring back The Podcast Without a Name after an almost two-month hiatus. We dive right into the topic du jour, gun control. After the most recent Parkland, Flordia school shooting tragedy the gun control debate widens. Are there sensible limits? What is actually going on in our schools? Does the center have the best approach? Packag…
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Gary Martin, Las Vegas Review-Journal's Washington Correspondent, joins me to discuss President Trump asking Danny Tarkanian to drop from the Nevada Senate race, Tarkanian doing so, and what that means for the race and Republican incumbent Dean Heller, who no longer faces a tough primary challenge.By State-by-state election coverage with political journalists across America
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The Denver Post's John Frank joins me to discuss the 2018 race for Governor in Colorado, an open race because Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper is term-limited. We discuss Hickenlooper's potential presidential run, the complicated primary process in Colorado and the extremely competitive Democratic primary race to see who will square off agains…
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