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Campaign Throwback: 'The Beer Question'

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

News, Politics

4.620.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This is the third installment of the 538 Politics podcast mini-series, “Campaign Throwback.” Across three episodes, we're taking a look back at campaign tropes from past elections such as, “it’s the economy, stupid,” or “soccer moms” or that question about which candidate you’d rather share a beer with. We’ll ask where those tropes came from, whether they were actually true at the time and if they still hold up today. In our third installment: "the beer question." After the 2000 and 2004 elections, political observers remarked that Republican George W. Bush defeated his Democratic opponents in part because he was the candidate who voters would rather "have a beer with." The phrase quickly became a cliche for evaluating a candidate's likability or relatability. But is it really how voters choose their presidents? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I mean he seemed like a guy that you'd want to have a beer with and you would entrust

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with nuclear weapons, which is a difficult balance to strike.

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Hello. Hello and this is the third installment of our mini-series-Truk and this is the third

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installment of our mini-series campaign throwback.

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Across three episodes were taking a look back at campaign tropes from past elections

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and asking where they came from,

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whether they were actually true at the time, and if they still hold up today.

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In the first installment, we asked whether James Carville's famous slogan, It's The Economy

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Stupid, accurately describes the role the economy plays in elections.

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In the second, we re-examined the idea that quote-unquote soccer moms are the quintessential

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swing voter. If you haven't heard those yet, go check them out.

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