How Education Became Today's Wedge Issue
FiveThirtyEight Politics
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🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The fact that you can't give me a straight answer about something as fundamental as what a woman is |
| 0:08.9 | underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about. |
| 0:16.1 | The current policy is eroding our national advantage on Stubzell research and it is undermining |
| 0:21.5 | the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans. Marriage is the most fundamental institution of |
| 0:26.3 | civilization and it should not be redefined by activist judges. I never said I oppose |
| 0:34.8 | fracking. You said it tape. I did show the tape. Put it on your website. Put it on the website. |
| 0:41.1 | The fact of the matter is, it's flat line. |
| 0:43.5 | Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Gailan Drug. During the past year, many |
| 0:57.2 | Republicans have hammered the message that education has run a muck under democratic control and that |
| 1:02.9 | parents need more of a say in the classroom. They've touched on debates over school closures, |
| 1:08.5 | masking, how teachers talk about race, gender and sexuality and whether transgender students can |
| 1:14.2 | compete in school sports. You could say that education has become something of a wedge issue, |
| 1:20.4 | an issue that parties use to divide their opposing party and try to shake loose new voters. |
| 1:26.6 | The history of wedge issues is long and includes debates on everything from free trade to affirmative |
| 1:32.5 | action, same-sex marriage to stem cell research. Today, we're going to talk about wedge issues. |
| 1:38.1 | How exactly they work and how they shape our politics. Here with me, to do that is Duke |
| 1:43.3 | University Political Science Professor Sunshine Hiligus. She's the author of the book, The Persuadeable |
| 1:48.7 | Voter, Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:53.9 | Also here with us is NYU Political Science Professor Patrick Egan. He's the author of the book, |
| 1:58.8 | Partisan Priorities, How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics. Also, |
| 2:03.6 | welcome to the podcast. Thanks for being here. Yeah, good to be here. Thanks for having me. |
| 2:07.2 | So let's begin by defining our terms here. So as I understand it, a wedge issue can basically be |
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