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Civics 101

Middle Class, Totally Relatable & Elite! (The Campaign Jargon Trivia Episode)

Civics 101

NHPR

Government, History, Society & Culture

4.22.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Why do very different political candidates say the same things over and over? Things like "middle class," "coastal elites" and "middle America?" What do those things even mean? That's what this episode is all about.  Also...some civics and history trivia that's VERY much on-topic. Sort of.   CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are we ready? Yeah, but what are we doing here?

0:02.8

So I've gathered you all here on this Friday afternoon at the end of the DNC because

0:10.8

it is time to talk about election jargon

0:13.5

election catchphrases.

0:15.4

I'm Christina Phillips.

0:16.7

I'm Rebecca La Joy.

0:18.0

I'm Nick Capadiche.

0:19.2

I'm Hannah McCarthy.

0:20.4

This is Civics 101 and it is the election jargon addition of Civics 101 trivia.

0:27.0

So as I said, the DNC just ended.

0:33.0

RNC was earlier this summer.

0:35.0

We're in the final couple months of the election,

0:37.0

which means that on the national and local level,

0:40.0

you cannot escape politicians talking to you, about you, and at you.

0:46.2

So today I have prepared a game of trivia about all the stuff the candidates say on the campaign

0:51.6

trail.

0:52.4

It's going to be a blend of

0:53.4

critique analysis some pettiness and hopefully it will be fun. So way back at the

1:00.8

beginning of this year we asked our audience to send us some of the most overused verbiage they hear politicians say on the campaign trail.

1:09.0

And each round of this trivia is based on some of the most common themes we heard from

1:13.9

listeners I will read a couple listener emails they're vague broad and they shift

1:19.4

depending on who is saying them so I tried to pick things that both Republicans and Democrats

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