Episode 108: Does this feel like a landslide, yet? Why we use television narratives to understand politics
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Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Trump 2016 vs. Trump 2020
Is this a landslide?
Myles McNutt on how we use television narratives to understand our political world.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Andy Beach, Nick Wood. Politics, politics, politics, politics, politics. |
| 0:15.0 | politics! Hello and welcome everybody did the politics politics |
| 0:23.0 | politics program. My name is Justin. Hello and everybody did the politics politics |
| 0:33.6 | politics program my name is Justin Robert Young for October 9th |
| 0:37.0 | 20 that puts us a scant 25 days until day one of election day. I don't know if the most arduous Donald Trump supporter would tell you that he had a good week, which means those that are not supporters of the president would tell you that this was an exceptionally horrible week for the president. |
| 1:07.0 | In fact, something that I've continued to get is the idea, and I did an emergency podcast on Tuesday about this. |
| 1:17.0 | Does this now feel like a landslide? |
| 1:21.0 | We are again seeing national polls at the mid-teens for Biden when I first asked |
| 1:29.6 | that question earlier in the summer and my my conclusion was no but I will re-ask that question in this |
| 1:39.2 | episode we also have a mail bag segment coming up for you and it is an extra large one considering |
| 1:46.1 | We've had a you know a lot of pressing news to get to without getting into some of the bigger questions. |
| 1:53.6 | And then an amazing interview, as we've watched these crazy situations unfold, |
| 1:59.7 | oftentimes what I've watched people try to wrestle with is how we compare this to movies and television shows that we watch. |
| 2:10.0 | Why did these narratives look like those narratives? And so we brought on |
| 2:16.2 | somebody who studies in a scholarly pursuit television. We will discuss all that a little bit later. |
| 2:25.0 | But first! |
| 2:31.0 | 538. Election Update Why Women Are Defeating Donald Trump. |
| 2:43.3 | Christianity today. |
| 2:46.5 | Speak truth to Trump. |
| 2:49.0 | Evangelicals of all people should not be silent about Donald Trump's blatant |
| 2:55.7 | immorality. The Atlantic Donald Trump's disastrous debate. |
| 3:05.0 | Politico magazine. |
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