Why 2024 Is Unlike Any Previous Election
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, voting correspondent Miles Parks, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
Our producers are Casey Morell & Kelli Wessinger. Our editor is Erica Morrison. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Fact checking by Jeongyoon Han.
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| 0:16.0 | Hi, this is Russ in beautiful Pella Iowa. The Iowa caucuses might be over, but my semester teaching at Central College is just |
| 0:23.8 | beginning and I'm about to go teach the mathematics of vote counting, apportionment |
| 0:27.7 | and political power. This podcast was recorded at 105 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, January 17th of 2024. |
| 0:37.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it. |
| 0:39.0 | Okay, here's the show and go Dutch. Dutch. I might be reaching out for a one-on-one. |
| 0:46.7 | I feel like I need like an hour, a little like cram session, |
| 0:49.5 | maybe we can schedule it for like October. |
| 0:51.4 | Pella Iowa, people should know if you've heard that name, Pala Windows. |
| 0:55.0 | It started there. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Usmanhala, I cover the White House. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Miles Parks, I cover voting. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm Domenico Muntener, a senior political |
| 1:04.2 | editor and correspondent. And today on the show The Mechanics of Voting, and what makes this election |
| 1:10.1 | season so different than any we have seen before. False claims surrounding the |
| 1:14.4 | integrity of the 2020 presidential election soed doubt among some |
| 1:18.2 | Republicans. They also created fear for many election workers. But before we get there, Miles, you cover voting. I am so glad that you |
| 1:26.1 | were with us today on the show. The 2020 Iowa caucuses were a bit shaky. I remember being there and you know |
| 1:32.4 | Democrats had this app. |
| 1:33.6 | That's an understatement right? Yeah I think it was maybe like a disaster, a tobacco. |
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