WE Are The Ones Who Knock
Politix
Politix
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This week, Matt and Brian discuss the merits and drawbacks of field organizing, and why it’s worth knocking on doors or making calls if you care about the outcome of the election. They tackle questions including:
* Can feel your own contribution to turnout, even if canvassing operations are expensive for the campaign? (Spoiler: Yes.)
* Where to volunteer depending on your demographic traits.
* How talking to real, marginal voters who don’t live and breathe politics will humble even the most self-assured ideologue.
Then, behind the paywall, Matt and Brian muse about what they hope and expect to see from the campaigns in the closing days of election. Will Donald Trump fill more news holes with Arnold Palmer’s fleshy hog (to avoid more discourse about January 6 and his dictatorial ambitions)? What can Kamala Harris do to keep national attention where it belongs? How can everyone from lowly issue advocates to retired four-star generals do to make sure the campaign ends on a helpful note?
All that, plus the full Politix archive are available to paid subscribers—just upgrade your subscription and pipe full episodes directly to your favorite podcast app via your own private feed.
Further reading:
* Brian’s reflections on his first canvassing experience.
* Matt on why Democrats should talk about their good issues.
* A right-leaning think tank concludes Trump’s fiscal agenda will dramatically hasten Social Security insolvency and the severity of the automatic benefit cuts seniors will experience if we reach that point.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | And I think that there's just more stuff that they could do along those lines, sending Merritt Garland out to to threaten Elon Musk with prosecution for buying votes. |
| 0:12.1 | Yeah, like that would be good. Just do it. What it? Musk with prosecution for buying votes. Yeah. |
| 0:13.0 | Like that would be good. |
| 0:14.0 | Just do it. |
| 0:15.0 | What it? |
| 0:16.0 | I think so. |
| 0:17.0 | All right. |
| 0:18.0 | Ha ha. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | So this week Matt and I will talk about the final stretch of the election, |
| 0:30.0 | how we're managing our own expectations and stress and what we expect and hope to see from the Harris campaign and I guess even from the Trump campaign in the coming two weeks. |
| 0:40.0 | I hope you enjoy or at least get a lot out of this conversation and if you want to hear the whole thing you can upgrade your subscription to paid at politics. |
| 0:50.0 | Hey everyone welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Matthew Iglesias. |
| 0:58.0 | Matt, how are you doing? How are you feeling? |
| 1:01.0 | You know, doing great. Got some, you know, it's funny because I... Did you do anything virtuous to stop fascism over the weekend? I did good posts, you know? No, you know, I was I was talking to a friend of mine and she was saying, you know, she's nervous about the election, but she went canvassing last weekend and she's donated and so she feels secure in the knowledge that she's done everything that she can. |
| 1:30.0 | And I said like this is why I'm just like awake at night with knots in my stomach because I truly believe that like the quality of my tweets is like the hinge point that if I could only convince everybody of the right stuff so it never ends and I'm running through the tape fighting with people about abortion and Social Security. |
| 1:50.5 | I do think that all these quants you like to hang out with should do a little like |
| 1:55.5 | a now give you give people a little chart right and you know along one axis is the |
| 2:01.9 | amount of clout they have you know like a total number of social media followers or sub-stack subscribers or whatever. |
| 2:07.0 | And on the other one is like the value of their time canvassing versus posting. |
| 2:14.4 | And then that way you could have a real-ish, mostly fake, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Politix, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Politix and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.