Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 11/07/2018 - What Progressives have learned from this election, as votes in Texas, Georgia, and Florida came within a voter suppression whisper of winning what were thought of as safe Republican positions. As Dems erect a barricade to fascism in the House of Reps, Thom looks at all the results around the country, walks his blues away, says goodbye to Scott Walker, and looks ahead. Many interesting facts revealed.

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🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Thom gives his thoughts post-election, including the success of the Democrats winning back the House of Representatives. German politicians are puzzled why the American vote count does not reflect the results. Given the possibility of voter suppression, Thom argues that Beto O'Rourke and Andrew Gillum conceded too soon. ------- As many feel a bit beleaguered, Thom reads from his book 'Walking Your Blues Away- How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being'. ------- Thom fields informative and thoughtful listener calls. ------- Thom reads from 'Birthright Citizen- A history of Race and Rights in Antebellum America' by Martha S. Jones. ------- Thom cheers on the departure of Scott Walker before taking listener calls and considering what comes next in Congress. ------- Shawn checks in with Ellen Rattner of Talk Media News with a deep look behind the post-election headlines.

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0:00.0	This is the Tom Hartman program.
0:09.0	Hey, the Democrats took the house. the the American way. Wow. You know it's kind of one of those good news
0:24.3	bad news scenarios are just amazing news and you know still got a lot of work to do
0:29.3	news. People who came out and voted for United States Senators.
0:33.6	There's an interesting op-ed in the Washington Post about this right now,
0:37.4	about in Europe.
0:38.7	The head of the German Parliament actually said,
0:42.1	you guys have the most unusual electoral system or words to that
0:45.1	effect because in Europe they were just looking at the vote totals right I mean you
0:50.0	know in Germany if somebody gets 10 million more votes than somebody else they
0:53.3	have you know the equivalent number of seats if they get say they get you know 20% more
0:57.7	votes you get 20% more members of parliament not how it works here in the United
1:01.5	States so about 12 million more people voted for a
1:04.7	Democratic senator than voted for a Republican senator. So you would think that the Senate
1:10.0	would be run by Democrats, right? No, not so much. And this, a lot of this goes back to
1:15.0	strategy sessions that were happening in the Reagan era, in the mid-70s, which is
1:21.0	pre- Reagan of course, but in the mid-70s these think tanks these highly politicized
1:26.2	think tanks that were created out of the Powell memo.
1:28.7	Started looking around the country and saying okay where is it inexpensive for us to nail down a United States senator and a
1:35.4	governor forever and you know you've got low population states like Oklahoma and
1:42.0	Wyoming let's go into those states and you know population states like Oklahoma and Wyoming.
1:42.8	Let's go into those states and you know let's have our buddies you know buy up
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