Which Election Did You Care About The Most?
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Which election did you care about the most, and why? We want to hear your stories.
Next month, we’re doing an episode about how we can make voting better. Is it an issue of motivation, or something else? So send us your stories, about any kind of election, political or not. It could be an election for a sports team, to the local PTA, or for your favorite reality competition show. Send us a voice recording to [email protected]. We hope to use your stories during an upcoming episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Kai and we've got a special ask for you this week. |
| 0:06.6 | I've got a question for you and to help explain that question, I'm joined by our Senior Digital |
| 0:11.8 | Producer, Kusha Navidadar. |
| 0:13.6 | Hey Kusha. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey Kai. |
| 0:15.6 | So Kusha, you are working on a new episode and tell the people a little bit about it. |
| 0:20.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.9 | The midterm elections are coming up. |
| 0:23.7 | In fact, we just had our primaries in New York City this past week and Kai, as you know, |
| 0:29.7 | midterm elections don't turn out as many voters as presidential elections. |
| 0:34.9 | This is a truism of American politics, midterm elections, congressional elections, but also |
| 0:40.0 | many different kinds of local elections. |
| 0:42.4 | The turnout is super depressingly low and that's that which hurts my heart a little bit |
| 0:50.2 | and I want to know what's up with that more specifically. |
| 0:54.0 | What could we do to make voting better for us as individuals in this country? |
| 0:59.6 | You know, what could we be doing to get either people more motivated or is being motivated |
| 1:04.9 | not actually the substantial issue? |
| 1:07.7 | Right. |
| 1:08.7 | So back to the listener here, what question do you have for our listeners for this work |
| 1:12.6 | you're doing? |
| 1:13.6 | Well, I wanted to find a way to get people into the conversation without requiring like |
| 1:17.6 | a degree in political science to do so. |
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