#279 MIDTERMS - Fake News & Election Results
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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MIDTERMS - Fake News & Election Results
Issues, Opinion, and Government Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, I'm your host Paul Vogelzang and this is episode 279
On NOVEMBER 6th 2018 the United States will hold elections for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress and there is much to be concerned about in these times. These lower house seats are contested every two years, both alongside the presidential race and in midterm elections. There will also be 35 seats up for grabs in the Senate, the upper chamber, which holds elections every two years for about a third of its six-year positions.
Those elections, and the votes that will determine their results matter.
But, there are many in The Not Old Better audience that may be wondering whether their vote will count. Will my vote matter? Won't the social media bots determine the election? What about Fake News?
Well, our guest today, Prof Brendan Nyhan will tell us that based on his research from the University of Michigan, it is not easy to influence or change people's votes in an election.
As a matter of fact, according to Prof Nyhan, the answer is that a growing number of studies conclude that most forms of political persuasion seem to have little effect at all.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Nat Old Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vogel-Zang and this is |
| 0:05.2 | episode number 279. Oh, the Eastern world, it is exploding, violence, |
| 0:14.0 | fair. |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, the Eastern world, it is exploding, |
| 0:22.0 | violence, fair and... It is exploding. It is exploding. |
| 0:23.0 | Violence fair. |
| 0:25.0 | Bullislo. |
| 0:26.0 | They're old enough to kill. |
| 0:28.0 | Not for voting. |
| 0:30.0 | You don't believe in war. |
| 0:31.0 | For today's show about the upcoming midterm U.S. elections, I couldn't resist playing a bit of background |
| 0:38.2 | music from the 60s protest song, Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire because on November 6th 2018 the United States |
| 0:47.1 | will hold elections for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress, and there is much to be |
| 0:56.3 | concerned about in these times. |
| 0:58.6 | These lower house seats are contested every two years, both alongside the presidential race and in midterm elections. |
| 1:06.6 | There will also be 35 seats up for grabs in the Senate, the upper chamber, which holds elections every two years for about a third of its six-year |
| 1:17.0 | positions. Those elections and the votes that will whether their vote will count at all. Will my vote matter? |
| 1:34.2 | Won't the social media bots determine the election? |
| 1:37.6 | What about fake news? |
| 1:39.4 | Well, our guest today, Professor Brendan Nihan, |
| 1:42.4 | will tell us that based on his research from the University of Michigan |
| 1:45.8 | it is not easy to influence or change people's votes in an election. |
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