George Washington Wouldn't Tolerate Furries(with Charlie Sykes)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 1 October 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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America's Dairyland is becoming America's Election Land. Wisconsin has major races for governor and for U.S. Senate...and how are the Trump-to-Biden voters that delivered Wisconsin for Joe Biden feeling about them? The Bulwark's own Charlie Sykes joins Sarah to talk about what the voters (and Charlie) are thinking. Listen to the end for the most laugh-out-loud funny moment Sarah's ever heard in a focus group.
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| 0:26.8 | per month required. Terms of plaeton.co. UK. Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast. I'm Sarah Longwell, |
| 0:44.5 | publisher of the bulwark and this week we are headed once again to America's |
| 0:49.8 | Dairyland, Wisconsin. |
| 0:52.5 | Since we last talked about Wisconsin, the Trump-endors businessman Tim Michaels, won the |
| 0:57.6 | Republican primary to face Democratic incumbent Governor Tony Evers. |
| 1:02.3 | And there have been a rash of polls |
| 1:04.1 | showing that Democrat Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes |
| 1:07.9 | has a real shot against GOP Senator Ron Johnson. |
| 1:12.2 | But one thing hasn't changed. Wisconsin is still an evenly |
| 1:15.8 | divided and crucial state this election cycle. So for this week's group we took the |
| 1:21.3 | temperature of a bunch of Wisconsin swing voters, all of whom |
| 1:26.1 | voted for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Once again I am joined by the Bul Bullworks, the one, the only person I know from Wisconsin. |
| 1:36.8 | Charlie Sykes, hey Charlie, thanks for being here. |
| 1:39.4 | Well, it is great to talk about the cheese heads. |
| 1:42.1 | Good to be back. So what is it like up there in Wisconsin |
| 1:45.5 | right now? Like what's the vibe? Oh man. Is it like fall? Is it nice? Like what's happening? |
| 1:49.6 | It is fall. Over the weekend I was I was done in Austin Texas where it was 98 degrees and come back here and it is a hardcore fall temperature in the 50s |
| 1:58.5 | Sounds great Wisconsin. It's September October, what can I say? |
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