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Explain It to Me

How to win elections

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Dara, Jane, and Matt break down the great mobilization vs persuasion debate. Resources: "What Happened in the Georgia Gubernatorial Election?" Catalist Analytics, Medium "The case for taking Trump’s black outreach seriously" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox "Michelle Obama Is Mad at ‘Our Folks,’ Not Trump Voters: ‘That’s My Trauma’" by Kevin Fallon, Daily Beast White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sorry, I got to hang out for a helicopter.

0:04.8

The helicopters over Shaw have gotten excessive and I want like a separate podcast just about

0:09.9

why there are so many damn helicopters going overhead all the time now.

0:13.7

I also have this question, but okay.

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the weeds on the box media podcast network.

0:34.9

I'm Matthew Glacias. We're here with Jane Kostin and ProPublica's Darrylind.

0:39.2

The the economy is reopening this week in America with no problems having been solved as far as I can tell.

0:47.1

And the weeds along with that we continue to cower in our separate homes rather than than gathering,

0:52.9

working remotely and responsibly.

0:55.1

But we are reopening the weeds topic list that we had compiled from before the pandemic became

1:01.9

some ideas.

1:02.9

In a truly remarkable act of foresight, we had a big brainstorming session to set out the entire next

1:08.2

month at the beginning of March.

1:09.7

Yes. So we laid out an editorial roadmap that wound up in a ditch, but we are now returning to

1:18.4

select select elements of the roadmap.

1:22.3

So you know, one thing we wanted to talk about that I think continues to be 100% relevant

1:27.9

even as the world has been turned upside down is that there's this kind of argument simmering

1:33.4

throughout the political system for years, really, about whether you need to try to win

1:38.7

by persuading swing voters and sort of bring them over to your side.

1:43.4

And you know, that can mean different things, but sort of classically it's like, well,

1:47.4

you've got to be moderate.

1:48.6

You need to cater to the sentiments of people who voted for Donald Trump last time and make

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