Conventions Week: Seven Weird Conventions Moments (Part One)

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🗓️ 18 August 2024

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Welcome to Conventions Week! From time to time this election year, we're going to do some special series that highlight the rhythm of an election cycle. This week, as the Democrats are meeting in Chicago, we are looking at conventions, which are very strange affairs!

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To mark conventions week, we thought we'd go through some of the weirder and more awkward convention moments in US political history. This episode, we bring you the first batch, from failed props to bad dancing...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:06.7	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:08.7	And welcome folks to Conventions Week. Now regular listeners to this
0:16.0	podcast will know that throughout the election year we are doing some special
0:19.0	series that look at the regular features of an election year so we've done stuff on the also run
0:24.0	candidates to Vip stakes to more and now we have come to conventions the
0:29.0	RNC already had their convention as you know it was quite the affair and the Democrats are in
0:34.1	Chicago pretty late in the calendar year to formally nominate Kamala Harris and
0:39.3	Tim Walls as their candidates so we're going to talk about conventions. There's a lot to do this week, but the first thing I should say is, if you are listening to this, maybe you want to go watch this because we're doing this as one of our video episodes that we do from time to time putting it on the this day
0:55.0	YouTube channel and so
0:58.0	listeners if you want to subscribe to the YouTube channel
1:00.0	or go on YouTube you can see our faces
1:02.0	as we do this episode or you can keep listening if you're
1:04.0	listening in the good old podcast feed but those faces for those of you watching
1:08.6	here as always Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley
1:12.4	hello there. Hello there.
1:13.0	Hello Jody.
1:14.1	Hey there.
1:15.7	And Kelly is wearing a this day t-shirt.
1:18.3	So yeah.
1:19.3	Always rev in the merch.
1:20.5	Very nice. I like that yellow.
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