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The Gist

Runaway Military Spending

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, names are stupidly important when it comes to getting elected.  The Trump administration is proposing a boost in military spending, but the country's defense budget actually peaked under President Obama during the troop surge for the war in Afghanistan. Bipartisan support for massive defense spending has been the norm since the Reagan era. Foreign Policy's Dan De Luce tells us about it. In the Spiel, lawyer Michael Cohen's out-of-pocket expenses.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Wednesday, February 14, 2018.

0:39.5

From Slated to the Gisdy Mike Pesca in Florida, around the Sarasota region,

0:44.8

they had a special election yesterday for the State House and their Democrat Margaret Good,

0:49.9

Beat Republican James Buchanan. She overcame a big Republican leaning district. It was a

0:55.4

Trump district. In a way, with her defeat of James Buchanan, you could say she bested two of the

1:01.8

worst presidents in US history. Yes, James Buchanan. I guess it's good you go into politics with the name

1:07.2

of an established successful politician and James Buchanan was a president, so you have to take his

1:12.4

candidacy seriously, but it was also the worst president or maybe the second worst president.

1:17.0

It's a kind of a double-edged sword. Statistics estimate that a Democrat can beat a Republican

1:23.5

in a heavily Trump district, so long as the Republican is named either James Buchanan or Warren G

1:29.2

Harding, possibly Franklin Pierce. Names are stupidly important when it comes to getting elected,

1:35.2

like in Chicago, the Chicago Land Area. There's a guy running for judge named Shannon P. O'Malley.

1:42.1

Turns out it's a big Irish area because when the guy was running for judge as his real name,

1:46.2

his given name, Philip Spewak, he didn't do so well. He also changed parties,

1:52.1

trying to gain the luck of the Irish there. My favorite changing your name or endorsing a

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