Getting Gamers To The Polls, Plus The Pandemic Economy

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🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Voter outreach took on an unconventional form Tuesday night when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez streamed her gameplay of the hit game "Among Us" on Twitch. While she played the game with friends, her stream became one of the 20 most watched streams in Twitch history. Sam chats with Wired writer Cecilia D'Anastasio who explains the streaming platform's potential to reach new voters. Also, the pandemic has hit the economy hard, but not everyone is feeling the blows. Sam talks to Scott Horsley, NPR's Chief Economics Correspondent, about the pandemic economy – who's winning, who's losing and why.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam Zock-Betty.
0:02.8	This week, how politicians talk to voters
0:06.4	through video games.
0:08.2	All right, let's start the show.
0:11.4	Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders.
0:13.4	It's been a minute.
0:14.7	This week on the show, Politics.
0:17.4	You may have heard by now,
0:18.6	there's an election coming up in less than two weeks.
0:22.1	And this week, Donald Trump and Joe Biden,
0:24.7	they squared off in a presidential debate.
0:26.9	I'm Kristen Welker of NBC News,
0:29.2	and I welcome you to the final 2020 presidential debate
0:32.9	between President Donald J. Trump
0:35.1	and former Vice President Joe Biden.
0:37.4	Tonight's debate.
0:38.3	Later on, we're getting to one subject of the debate
0:40.6	that is ever present in every presidential election.
0:43.8	And we'll talk about how it's playing out a little differently
0:46.1	in this very strange year.
0:48.1	But first, a different kind of political outreach
0:52.2	than what happened this week at the debate.
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