The blue vs. red economy
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Live near a yoga studio? What about a golf course? Americans may experience the economy differently based on the politics of the neighborhoods they live in. We’ll dig into new data on the relationship between political affiliation and the businesses around us. Then, we’ll talk about a new revelation in the lawsuit against Elon Musk over his controversial $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes. Plus, on this Election Day eve, we’re smiling about early turnout.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Musk PAC tells Philadelphia judge the $1 million sweepstakes winners are not chosen by chance” from The Associated Press
- “How Red and Blue America Shop, Eat and Live” from The New York Times
- “4 charts show how early voting is going in the US” from CNN
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Jake, let's go. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey, everybody. I'm Connor Rizzdahl. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:09.8 | Where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:12.8 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:13.8 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:15.5 | It is almost here. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:17.5 | We are on Election Day Eve. |
| 0:18.7 | We are about to be done. |
| 0:20.5 | Well, sort of done. |
| 0:21.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.2 | Mostly done. |
| 0:23.9 | Anyway, it's Monday, November the 4th. Y'all have made it this far. We can make it another couple days. |
| 0:28.8 | We will do our thing, some news and some smiles, and then get out of your hair. Let us start with the news. Ms. Adams, you get to go first. |
| 0:36.2 | I am so fascinated by this New York Times interactive that they posted today that is about, the headline is, how red and blue America shop, eat, and live. |
| 0:49.9 | And they've crunched all this data on what kind of shops and facilities and activities and restaurants and things are in areas that are predominantly Republican or predominantly Democrats. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm going to read you just a little bit. |
| 1:09.5 | So there are thousands of golf courses in |
| 1:11.2 | the United States. You can find them in every state in nearly every country. There's probably |
| 1:15.2 | one near you. Take all those data points and you can see that there are more golf courses for |
| 1:20.7 | every 100,000 voters in redder neighborhoods than in blue ones. There are also thousands of breweries in the United States, but they're much more concentrated on the coasts and in urban areas. The brewery to voter ratio is much higher in some of the country's bluest precincts where Joe Biden won the vote in 2020. And it's not just golf and brewing. People in America's reddest neighborhoods |
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