Welcome To Election R&D - 2020 and Beyond
Let's Find Common Ground
USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future
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🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
At the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future, veteran strategists Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy regularly talk with top operatives on both sides of the 2020 contest and the journalists who are covering it. The conversations get behind the curtain -- because what seems to be happening in the campaign is often different than what really is.
What are the calculations in the war rooms of 2020? How is the media covering the race, and how is the coverage shaping the outcome? Hear from those who’ve known success and setbacks in presidential races. And laugh, too, at their stories of the inside maneuvers and blunders that shape the outcome. Every exchange is guided by standards central to the Center’s mission: Respect each other and respect the truth. Opponents are adversaries, not enemies. And if you lose, don’t burn down the stadium.
Election R&D will be there from the primary debates to election day, and then to a post-election, in depth analysis of the driving forces that led to victory and defeat.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm Bob Shrum, a longtime Democratic strategist, who's now director of the USC Dornseif Center for the Political Future. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm here with my political adversary and longtime friend Mike Murphy, a brilliant GOP strategist, unfortunately, and the co-director of the center. |
| 0:22.6 | He's worked for countless politicians all across the country, including Jeb Bush, John McCain, |
| 0:28.6 | Mitt Romney, so many others. I just wish he'd found the right candidate to work for. |
| 0:34.6 | Well, you know, I don't own a Mousuit, Bob, so I'm not sure I'd fit in on the other side. But you did find |
| 0:39.1 | right-wing candidates. I did. I did indeed. And it's a pleasure to join you. I'm here at the |
| 0:43.9 | USC Center as co-director. And it's a pleasure to join my old friend Bob Schrum. We disagree on |
| 0:48.7 | everything political. But his resume, people like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Al Gore, and Barbara McCulski, he knows |
| 0:54.9 | politics, and well, we disagree, and we've even run campaigns against each other. |
| 0:59.1 | One thing we agree on is civil discourse and the idea lost a little bit in today's politics |
| 1:04.7 | that facts matter. So one thing we do at the Institute, and I encourage you to follow us on our |
| 1:09.2 | website or on social media, is we put on a lot of |
| 1:11.4 | panels with experts, practitioners, politicians, and we decided, hey, we record these things. Let's put |
| 1:16.9 | them up in a podcast. So you don't have to be just in Southern California to listen in. |
| 1:21.0 | Sometimes we have political conversations. On the eve next year of the Iowa caucus in New Hampshire |
| 1:26.8 | primary, we are bringing political |
| 1:28.6 | operatives from both sides together at Southern California for our famous Warshall conference, |
| 1:33.1 | which will be one of the best places to tune in right before the presidential primaries |
| 1:36.8 | about what's really going on in the primary and general election. |
| 1:39.9 | So we urge you, be you Republican, Democrat, Independent, anything you might be. |
| 1:44.4 | If you're interested in politics, lend an ear to the Center for the Political Future at USC's Election R&D podcast. |
| 1:51.2 | I think you're going to enjoy it. |
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