American Elections: Wicked Game Preview

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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This week we preview a great new podcast - American Elections: Wicked Game from Wondery. On Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020, the citizens of the United States will cast ballots to elect their president, and it feels like the country couldn’t be more divided. America will have to endure another 58 weeks of shouting, outrage, and the worst sort of political rancor. How has it come to this? It turns out, it’s almost always been this way. And the 58 weeks we have remaining is just enough time to review the entire history of presidential elections, from the unanimous and inevitable election of George Washington in 1789, to Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory in 2016 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you got your podcasts. American Elections: Wicked Game http://wondery.fm/AmericanElectionsWM Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:11.3	Joe, one of the things we like to do around here is promote other podcasts that we personally
0:15.0	like and ones that we think our listeners will find interesting.
0:18.3	In fact, the first podcast I ever listened to was American History Tellers, hosted by
0:22.7	a guy named Lindsay Graham, believe it or not, and he's careful to point out it's not
0:27.2	that Lindsay Graham.
0:28.2	As a guy named Adam Levine, I have a little sympathy with that.
0:31.6	So today we wanted to tell our listeners about a history podcast by that other Lindsay Graham
0:35.7	and our friends at Wondry.
0:37.3	It's called American Elections Wicked Game.
0:40.1	Yes, American Elections Wicked Game will look at each of the 58 presidential elections
0:45.2	from 1789 to 2016.
0:48.6	With the ugliness of politics today, even those of us who do this for a living are dreading
0:52.4	another year of shouting, name calling, outrage and lies.
0:56.1	When people say, can't we just go back to the good old days when politics was more civil?
1:00.9	Well, it turns out those days probably never actually existed.
1:04.6	Wondry invites you to rethink everything you thought you knew about presidential politics
1:08.5	with American Elections Wicked Game.
1:10.5	From the unanimous election of George Washington to Donald Trump's surprise victory in 2016,
1:16.2	each episode will explore the truth behind all 58 of America's presidential elections.
1:21.4	Wondry, American Elections Wicked Game will answer the question, was that the answer
1:26.0	is there ever such a thing as the good old days or was American politics always a dirty game?
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