Do Never-Trumpers Skew the Numbers? and other questions answered

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this week of Ask the Politics Guys supporters ask Trey and Mike their most pressing questions. First they address the issue of if Trump’s support among Republicans is so high because never-Trump Republicans are leaving. Next the Guys turn to a question about how alternative voting methods might effect the number of parties that exist, they also address the seeming impersonal nature of voting in a proportional representation system. After that Trey and Mike respond to a more personal question and explain how they ended up as political scientists. Both connected in college, but fascinatingly Mike was Trey’s professor! Next the Guys look to how tariffs will impact midwestern farm states in the upcoming midterms and, unfortunately, think it is unlikely to have an immediate impact. Finally Trey and Mike talk about why the show has not addressed more of the polling and the horse race of the campaign yet. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American
0:04.6	politics and policy. I'm Trey Orndorff, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University,
0:09.2	and I'm joined by Michael Berendowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University
0:13.4	as we tackle your questions in this midweek Wednesday show. Welcome again today, Michael. Yeah, I'm looking forward to
0:23.8	addressing some questions. I think we have some really good ones this week. You know, it is. I always
0:28.3	love when listeners reach out because you guys have some fascinating things and I love looking into it
0:33.8	or sometimes I'll have things and I think I always want to talk about that. And this all you know it's my chance to do it. So we appreciate that. We want to start with a question,
0:44.5	a listener question from online, Keith and he said as a fellow political nerd made the comment
0:51.1	that Republicans are leaving the party in droves because of Trump.
0:55.0	Trump currently has a 90% rating among Republicans. So here's what I'm wondering.
0:59.4	Would his percentage actually get larger because the never Trumpers and others are leaving the
1:06.6	GOP and make it more concentrated with Trump supporters? What do you think?
1:12.1	Huh. You know, that, that I think is a really interesting question. I guess I would, I would question
1:20.0	the premise, and then the premise being that Republicans are leaving the party in droves.
1:28.0	I think what's happening is that there are a number of high profile elite Republicans who are anti-Trump.
1:38.0	But the idea that I think there's any significant number of self-identified Republicans who are leaving the party because of Donald Trump.
1:47.2	I just don't, I don't see any evidence of that.
1:51.3	So, I mean, I don't know.
1:53.4	I don't know if you do, Trey.
1:54.6	So I would think that that's probably not, at least based on what I know, probably not a correct premise.
2:00.9	Yeah. I mean, I wish that I can say that I think more and more Republicans were like me
2:07.3	and saying, look, Trump is the bane of our party and our policies. I recognize that I'm an outlier.
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