BONUS: The Landscape of Democrats Politics is Rapidly Changing
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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One of the most exciting things that Democratic politics is seeing is happening with Data for Progress. Not only are they showing the way on political issues, they're also raising money to help flip State legislatures from red to blue. Peter Ogburn talks to Sean McElwee, the co-founder.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bill Press Show. |
| 0:08.4 | It is the Bill Press Show. |
| 0:09.6 | My name is Peter Ogburn here for the weekend podcast that we do as part of the Bill Press show. |
| 0:14.6 | As you know, we are live Monday through Friday. |
| 0:17.2 | We put the podcast up Monday through Friday. |
| 0:19.3 | But there are so many things that we |
| 0:20.9 | want to talk about these days that we have our weekend podcast for you to take part in. And we |
| 0:27.2 | appreciate all of you who are listening. So today, uh, we are talking about something that we do talk |
| 0:32.5 | about a lot on the show. And that is the, uh, the elections coming up here in, uh, just a couple of days. I mean, not even, |
| 0:39.7 | it's less than a month away. Joining us is Sean McElwee. He is with Data for Progress, a group |
| 0:46.9 | that is really fantastic and doing amazing work right now. We want to tell you all about it. Sean, |
| 0:53.3 | thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:55.1 | Oh, thanks for helping me. |
| 0:56.7 | So, you know, Data for Progress is one of the more interesting things that we've ever seen in politics in this current day and age. |
| 1:03.9 | You know, I think there are a lot of people in the aftermath of the election in 2016. |
| 1:09.2 | Everybody just sort of was, you know, apoplectic. |
| 1:13.0 | They were just completely out of their minds. |
| 1:14.9 | They didn't know what to do. |
| 1:16.4 | And you all started this organization that, you know, |
| 1:20.7 | God damn it, you guys were going to do something. |
| 1:22.8 | So what is it that you're working on? |
| 1:24.2 | What is it that you do? |
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