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🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vand-aw, |
0:05.6 | the government, love the government, the government, hug the government, love, the government, |
0:11.8 | the government, love the government, how the government, love the government, the government. |
0:12.8 | Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on |
0:17.0 | American politics and policy. |
0:18.9 | I'm Michael Baranowski, a professor of political science at |
0:21.6 | Northern Kentucky University. Today, we're starting a series on the 2020 elections with new |
0:27.2 | episodes dropping on Wednesdays until we wrap things up in mid-December, at which point I |
0:33.0 | hope at least all the election results will be in. Now, instead of the kind of basic mainstream media horse race coverage, our focus is going to be on policy. |
0:43.9 | We'll be taking deep dives into the differences between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on issues like COVID-19, health care, immigration, taxation and regulation, foreign policy, race and gender, and a few other things as well. |
0:59.1 | And what I'm particularly excited about here is how we're going to be doing this. |
1:04.8 | Northern Kentucky University has given me the opportunity to create a very special class with a small number of fantastic students |
1:12.7 | who will be the driving force behind this series. |
1:15.9 | And before we do get started, I wanted to especially thank my department chair, Karen Miller, |
1:20.9 | College of Arts and Sciences Dean, Diana McGill, Provost Suaat Rollins, President Ashish Vaidia, |
1:27.0 | and NKU Regent Rich Bainey for their help and support. |
1:31.6 | I'm very proud to say that I teach at a place that truly does value innovation, outreach, and civic engagement, |
1:38.4 | and not just in some mission statement, but in practice where it really matters. |
1:44.6 | Because this is a college class as well as a podcast, the students will have prepared pretty |
1:50.5 | extensively for each episode by researching the topic of discussion and writing a paper on |
1:56.1 | it that I'll have reviewed prior to our recording. And I'll be doing the same thing, |
2:00.1 | though, you know, I'm not going to be |
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