Maureen Dowd Wants a Candidate Like H.W. Again

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Maureen Dowd has covered every president since the early '90s. The second President Bush even gave her a nickname: "The Cobra." In her new book, Dowd examines what it takes to lead the country and what the press is missing about the current Republican nominee. On the Spiel, Mike laments a bygone age of TV advertising. Today's sponsors: The Gist is brought to you by Betterment, the largest automated investing service. Get up to six months of investing FREE when you go to Betterment.com/gist. And by ABC's new series Designated Survivor. Kiefer Sutherland stars as a Cabinet member who is thrust into the presidency after a devastating attack on the government. Designated Survivor premieres Wednesday, Sept. 21 on ABC. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:23.7	It's Tuesday, September 20th, 2016 from Slate, it's the gist I'm like, Peska.
0:34.1	United Russia, yes they are.
0:36.3	The party of Putin swept into power, while they were never out of power, but turnout was
0:41.8	low in this round of elections in Russia.
0:45.6	Perhaps because the Russians were so happy with the job United Russia was doing, they figured
0:50.4	they had this election in the bag.
0:52.4	And they were right, it seems to have been in the bag.
0:56.2	Opposition candidates could not get newspapers to run their ads, radio stations to air their
1:00.2	commercials, or indeed printers to print their leaflets.
1:03.8	Yeah, a leaflet's gonna undo Putin.
1:06.3	Today, Reuters got into more details about irregularities in Russian polling places.
1:13.7	In Mordovia's capital, Seronsk, a man dressed in a sports jacket in blue trousers came
1:19.4	to polling station 5912 cast his vote, then 20 minutes later, he was back putting his
1:25.1	vote in the ballot box.
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