Does Gen Z Really Care More About That Viral TikTok Than Politics?

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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4.6 • 20.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The general election has begun in earnest and in this installment of the 538 Politics podcast, the crew assesses how the country is feeling about it with a game of “Guess What Americans Think.” What percentage of Americans think the country is on the right track? Or that their preferred candidate will win? They also ask whether a poll suggesting that Gen Z voters are paying more attention to viral TikToks than the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on in vitro fertilization is a “good or bad use of polling.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels.
0:08.0	But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.
0:15.0	So you can stay one step ahead.
0:18.0	Soon it'll feel more like free-wheeling downhill.
0:20.0	Wuho!
0:21.0	On a tandem!
0:22.0	Alright mate, with a messer on the back.
0:25.0	Oh that's nice.
0:26.0	Search Zero with an ex because healthy business is beautiful business.
0:30.0	So who is more famous to you?
0:33.0	Lindsay Lohan or Renee Rapp?
0:35.0	I would say in this moment, Renee Rapp matters more to me than Lindsay Lohan.
0:40.0	Cancelled.
0:41.0	Cancelled.
0:42.0	I'm sorry. We were going to have you join this conversation but you actually have to leave now. Hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast I'm Geland Druke and welcome to the
1:02.1	general election.
1:04.0	The presidential primaries have been over in effect, I know, maybe since January, but now they are
1:10.0	truly over.
1:11.8	Last week, former UN Ambassador Nicky Haley suspended her campaign
1:14.7	for the Republican nomination making Donald Trump formally the presumptive
1:18.8	nominee and on the Democratic side Dean Phillips suspended his long shot campaign and endorsed Joe Biden.
1:25.8	So the 2024 election will be a rematch of 2020, and as the general election begins in earnest,
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