Episode 84: Does 2020 feel like a landslide to you? Is Ranked Choice Voting effective?
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
- All the numbers say that this election is going to be a generational landslide. But does it feel like it? We look back at 1980 to compare and contrast.
- Why COVID killed our appetite for Trump's rhetoric, the NBA taking heat from Sen. Hawley and why masks got politicized in our mailbag.
- Interview with Jason McDaniel (@ValisJason) about Ranked Choice Voting and if it is ultimately worth the unintended consequences.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Andy Beach, Paul Boyer, Michael Bullock, and Will Harris. Politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics. Welcome. Welcome everybody to the politics |
| 0:37.0 | to the politics politics program July 17th 2020 year boy Justin Robert Young reporting. |
| 0:46.8 | We had an interesting week, you know, |
| 0:49.7 | that Twitter hack was, |
| 0:52.2 | was a real weird one. I still feel like we're going to see more from that. |
| 0:56.8 | We're not going to talk much more about it on this particular episode of the show, |
| 1:01.6 | but beyond the real tragedy of an hour and a half silencing of the blue |
| 1:08.8 | checkmarks of which I proudly count myself as one, my inability as a specifically designated blue check mark upper |
| 1:19.9 | cruster to not bless the timelines of the commoners. Oh, oh did I feel so so lonely without |
| 1:29.8 | you, but as King George sings in Hamilton, oh, Hamilton, that's something that us blue check marks like to talk about. |
| 1:39.0 | Oh, we titter about what seats we got. |
| 1:42.0 | Were you in the orchestra or the loge? |
| 1:45.1 | Mmm. |
| 1:46.5 | That's what happens when those blue check marks get together. |
| 1:50.1 | Hmm. |
| 1:52.4 | As King George sings, you'll be back. |
| 1:55.0 | And indeed you were an hour and a half later, so starved for the opinions of us the blue checkmark class |
| 2:08.6 | The hack was actually interesting and I think there's more that we're going to find out about it but |
| 2:14.0 | Curious to see whether or not Jack is going to get hauled in front of Congress seems to be some rumblings on that |
| 2:23.2 | And then of course there's Josh Howley, |
| 2:25.6 | who loves writing letters. |
| 2:29.0 | Other than that, I hope everybody's getting ready |
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