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The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Adam Carrington, Michael Pack, and Kelly Scott Franklin

The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Hillsdale College

Education

4.8649 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Topics: The Iowa Caucus, CREATED EQUAL: CLARENCE …

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0:00.0

From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

0:18.4

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

0:20.5

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

0:25.9

On this episode, we'll talk with Adam Carrington from Hillsdale's politics department about the Iowa

0:30.6

Caucus and what comes next. Michael Pack is with us. He's the producer-director of the new film,

0:35.9

Created Equal, Clarence Thomas,

0:37.8

in his own words. And Kelly Scott Franklin from Hillsdale's English department will discuss

0:42.5

Rappuccini's daughter, short story by Nathaniel Hawthor. We're joined now by Dr. Adam Carrington,

0:48.2

assistant professor of politics at Hillsdale College. You can also find him on Twitter at Carrington

0:53.1

A.M. He's a Reds fan, but we forgive him. Dr. Carrington, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Glad to be a fan of the first all-professional Major League Baseball team. You know, there's an excellent chance that your team and my team are the two most improved teams in baseball this year, the Reds and the White Sox. So we can, and we're in separate leagues, so we can both enjoy it.

1:13.0

Yeah, no, no, I'll take a repeat of 1919.

1:17.7

We're talking today about Iowa and the caucus and the analysis, at least what we can give.

1:24.1

Everyone paying attention knows the results have been delayed.

1:27.5

They are slowly coming in.

1:29.4

But we can only see some of the paths forward out of Iowa and what those results, at least as we know of them, will mean for the candidates.

1:38.4

Before we get to that, though, talk about why this happened.

1:43.5

Why did Democrats change the way the caucuses were run or tallied

1:48.0

leading to this delay in the results? Yes, really it was just a change in reporting the numbers.

1:54.2

The process went smoothly and was the way it always has. And the caucus, what's weird about it is

2:00.1

unlike a primary where you just walk

2:02.1

in and vote, you come in and it's sort of like a town hall meeting where everyone lines up on

2:08.5

the person they're voting for. If you have less than 15% of the vote, a candidate, then those

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