Ep. 294 - Are you going to vote?

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Did you know that the majority of Americans don't vote? Today I ask you to not only commit to voting, but commit to being an informed voter that brings others with you. While The North Star takes a sabbatical week, we've decided to rerun the top 5 most listened to episodes of The Breakdown. Here is one of them. ----- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	Hey everybody I've got some good news. This week the team at the breakdown in the North Star
0:36.2	we're actually on sabbatical. We're doing some work like I'm recording this right now.
0:41.3	But this week so that we're not doing our full workload, we're actually
0:45.7	playing some of the most downloaded, most popular episodes of all time. We're almost at episode
0:51.2	number 300, which I can hardly believe.
0:54.1	Today's episode is about voting.
0:56.9	And I ask a simple question, but I have a little bit behind it.
1:01.4	Are you voting? Let me rephrase that. Are you an informed voter? If not why? Let me
1:09.9	unpack and explain it. It's one of our most popular episodes ever. Listen, learn, we appreciate
1:15.7	you. This is Sean King. You are listening to The Breakdown.
1:19.9	The Breakdown.
1:24.0	The breakdown.
1:25.0	The breakdown.
1:27.0	When I ask you if you plan on voting, it sounds like I'm joking, but I swear I'm not.
1:37.0	And the reason I ask is when I actually look at the numbers of people who aren't voting every year in, year out.
1:50.5	Over half of America, half of voting age Americans, is not there, you're not voting, period.
1:58.0	Half of all of our eligible voters aren't voting in presidential elections. In fact, the largest
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