Election Pep Talk

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Managing our election anxiety and getting out the vote. Does phone banking, text banking, and making a voting plan really move the needle? We find out with Crooked Media political director Shaniqua McClendon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!
0:04.4	A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:07.1	I'm Amina Tussaud, and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:10.8	On today's agenda, we are talking about managing our election anxiety and getting out the
0:15.4	vote, and we have a special guest, Shanique Wemma-Clendon, who's political director at Crooked
0:20.5	Media.
0:47.7	How's it going over there?
0:57.7	It's not going good.
1:01.6	I have complete existential dread about the upcoming election.
1:05.7	I hate coronavirus and fully over it.
1:08.5	Yeah, am I still here?
1:14.8	Thank you.
1:15.8	That is more or less how I'm also feeling.
1:18.3	My body feels broken, my soul feels broken, but we have an election to attend to.
1:25.8	Not an option.
1:26.8	Boy, do we.
1:29.5	I just felt really exhausted already from this election that hasn't even happened because
1:36.4	it just feels that we have been in campaign mode for get Trump out of here since he announced
1:42.6	that he was running for president at all.
1:45.7	The pace just feels really frenetic.
1:47.7	It's every time you turn in this country, there is an election, and it turns out that that's
1:52.1	actually true.
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