Third Party Candidates & Nonpartisan Voting Initiatives Falter
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Then, a look at why many ranked choice voting & nonpartisan primary ballot initiatives struggled at the polls this November.
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| 0:22.6 | Coming to you from the dress rehearsal for our annual performance of Handel's Messiah in Evanston, Illinois. |
| 0:30.7 | Wow. |
| 0:31.5 | This podcast was recorded at 2.25 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 19th. |
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| 1:04.9 | Music Well, there is no way we are going to be as awesome as that time stamp. |
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| 1:12.2 | It is pretty amazing. |
| 1:14.8 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover voting. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm Stephen Fowler. I cover politics. |
| 1:28.5 | And today on the show, voters had an opportunity to chip away at the stranglehold that the Democratic and Republican parties have on American politics, or at least send a strong signal. In many places, voters had a chance |
| 1:34.9 | to vote on how to vote, and they also could have voted for third party candidates for major |
| 1:40.5 | office. But by and large, they really didn't go there. Stephen, let us start with you and the |
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