#1307 The Melting Pot Goes to the Polls (The 2020 Electorate)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 September 2019
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Air Date: 9/24/2019
Today we take a look at the 2020 electorate. Not the election, not the candidates, the electorate - the people voting.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The New Voters of 2020 with Steve Phillips - Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener - Air Date 5-8-19
We need to consider the voters and the changes in the electorate since 2016. Especially significant: young people of color.
When it comes to elections there’s always a key voting bloc that gets the media attention. If candidate X wins the FILL IN THE BLANK they’ll win the election. Latino, White, Working Class, but never Black, and that needs to change.
Alicia Garza discusses research and advocacy organization dedicated to transforming black communities, talks about surveying 31,000 black voters in an attempt to understand what "black voters want" from a presidential candidate.
Ch. 4: Young Voter Turnout Surges - Election Ride Home - Air Date 4-24-19
Youth voter turnout is way up.
Ch. 5: Hispanic Population At An All-Time High But Growth Is Slowing - The Takeaway - Air Date 7-11-19
We analyze the U.S. Hispanic population demographically, economically, and politically, and look into what this means for the Latino vote in 2020.
Ch. 6: Electoral motivations of Evangelical Christians - Pod Save the People - Air Date 7-29-19
DeRay, Brittany, Sam and Clint discuss a survey of evangelical Christians on their perspectives of a changing America
Ch. 7: American Evangelicals with Bob Roberts - Interfaith Voices - Air Date 6-6-19
Bob Roberts discusses the divide in the Evangelical religion between generations and how much more inclusive younger evangelicals are.
Young Republicans want climate action, but they disagree with how to do it.
When it comes to elections there’s always a key voting bloc that gets the media attention. If candidate X wins the FILL IN THE BLANK they’ll win the election. Latino, White, Working Class, but never Black, and that needs to change.
Ch. 10: The Voter Blame Game - #sundaycivics with L. Joy Williams - Air Date 8-5-19
The voter blame game has begun with talking heads blaming voters who stayed home in 2016 for Trump’s win. But shaming voters is not a winning strategy, only voter engagement produces voter turnout
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 11: Analyzing the corporate structure - Dave from Olympia, WA
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on seating black people at a restaurant and Bernie’s grumpy attitude
Bonus Clip: Bernie and Black Voters with Malaika Jabali and Wendy Muse - The Dig from Jacobin Radio - Air Date 5-30-19
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Sanders isn’t unpopular with Black voters. In fact, he has done rather well with young Black people. But to win the primary and beat Biden, he must do a lot better.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.3 | learn about the 2020 electorate. |
| 0:10.6 | Not the election, not the candidates, the electorate, the people voting. |
| 0:15.8 | Not all of them, of course, I couldn't squeeze in everyone, but some of the most influential |
| 0:20.6 | groups and stick around at the end of the show for an explanation of the connection between |
| 0:26.2 | how black people get seated at restaurants and why Bernie Sanders struggles to attract |
| 0:32.9 | black voters. |
| 0:34.2 | That's going to be a good one. |
| 0:35.6 | And now onto the show clips today come from start making sense, the takeaway, the Brian |
| 0:40.8 | Lairer show, election ride home, pod save the people, interface voices, the real news |
| 0:47.3 | network, and Sunday civics. |
| 0:56.0 | Will you open your new piece for the nation by saying there are three things conspired |
| 1:00.9 | to make the 2016 election a perfect storm? |
| 1:05.3 | Let's remind our listeners that the election was determined by only 78,000 votes in three |
| 1:11.2 | states, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. |
| 1:15.0 | What do we need to know about that perfect storm? |
| 1:17.2 | Well, very first thing is to not forget and to not be disempowered by the fact that Clinton |
| 1:24.1 | got three million more votes in the country. |
| 1:26.3 | Some of those presidents are so unapologetic and destructive that we can feel like he has |
| 1:30.8 | majority of support, but he did not have majority support. |
| 1:34.0 | We lost by three million votes. |
| 1:35.8 | And even in those three states where he won the electoral college, he did not get the |
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