Researching Those Jerks In The Other Party

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Robb Willer, director of the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford University, is here to discuss his "Strengthening Democracy" mega-study, which looks at effective ways to reduce anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Plus, the red-wave doubters—the most straight forward theory of political success. That's the theory: whoever's the most straight forward has the most political success. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Monday, November 7th, 2022 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.4	It's the GIST I'm Mike Pesca.
0:09.2	There's something I wanted to say about the midterm elections and this is a great place
0:12.8	to say it.
0:13.8	I wanted to tell you why I thought the Republicans would win.
0:16.6	It's a pretty simple and straightforward explanation.
0:18.8	In fact, the word straight forward is the explanation.
0:22.8	Republicans will win and by when I mean, when many more seats in the house and I do think
0:27.8	take the Senate, but maybe not.
0:29.6	But have a very good night for the reason that they have a more straightforward explanation
0:35.3	on the issues that Americans are most concerned with.
0:39.0	That's it.
0:40.0	That's the entire explanation.
0:41.3	Now I'm not saying that Americans are inherently wise or that they have a gift for discerning
0:45.8	the truth or the straightforward explanation is the true explanation.
0:49.3	But I think in many cases, the Republican straightforward explanation is true or has
0:53.5	elements of truth.
0:54.5	Let's go and talk about the most important issues to voters.
0:58.6	Number one is inflation and also up there are crime and abortion.
1:02.8	Now sometimes they get ranked as the three of the top five issues if you include other
1:07.9	economic issues like just the economy in the polling.
1:11.9	I recently saw a mom with University poll taken two weeks ago where they said that 32%
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