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The Gist

Researching Those Jerks In The Other Party

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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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