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  • The 538 team covers the latest in politics, tracking the issues and "game-changers" every week.
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  • Elections Everywhere All At Once

    Elections Everywhere All At Once
    May 23 2024
    It’s been a newsy week for elections here at home and across the pond. On Wednesday, in her first public appearance since dropping out of the Republican primary, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said that she is going to vote for former President Donald Trump this fall. In this installment of the 538 Politics podcast, we ask whether her endorsement actually matters to voters. We also indulge in some British politics, with the announcement that the U.K. will hold general elections on July 4. The electoral picture for the Conservative Party is currently abysmal and they have six weeks to try to change it. And we check in on lessons from the downballot primaries that played out in Georgia and Oregon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    37 mins
  • Campaign Throwback: 'The Beer Question'

    Campaign Throwback: 'The Beer Question'
    May 22 2024
    This is the third installment of the 538 Politics podcast mini-series, “Campaign Throwback.” Across three episodes, we're taking a look back at campaign tropes from past elections such as, “it’s the economy, stupid,” or “soccer moms” or that question about which candidate you’d rather share a beer with. We’ll ask where those tropes came from, whether they were actually true at the time and if they still hold up today. In our third installment: "the beer question." After the 2000 and 2004 elections, political observers remarked that Republican George W. Bush defeated his Democratic opponents in part because he was the candidate who voters would rather "have a beer with." The phrase quickly became a cliche for evaluating a candidate's likability or relatability. But is it really how voters choose their presidents? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
  • Are Americans Tuning Out The 2024 Election?

    Are Americans Tuning Out The 2024 Election?
    May 20 2024
    It’s no secret that we are headed toward a presidential election that many Americans said they didn’t want. Somewhere in the range of 20 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, and if ratings are any indication, a lot of folks seem to be tuning campaign news out. So what does this portend for turnout? We’ve been in an era of high-turnout elections since 2016, but will fatigue or disdain keep people home this fall? In this installment of the 538 Politics podcast, the crew debates what kind of turnout we should expect and why it matters. They also discuss why Biden and Trump decided to go forward with two earlier-than-usual debates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 mins
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Best current events podcast in production.

This show is easily the most valuable podcast I have ever listened to. Fivethirtyeight offers up sophisticated data analysis, paired with politically savy commentation. It is neither condescending nor pretentious. Objective reality itself bends to a liberal point of view but Fivethirtyeight leaves any subjective partisan beliefs outside of it's recording studio.

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Dispassionate Analysis

538 consistently reviews the data with an eye to predicting what will be the correct outcome, instead of what will please the audience. Look at the models compared to the outcome: it's superb.
As for the podcast itself, Galen is a capable host while Nate and Clare play off each other to give a robust picture of the current political situation.

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Downgrading corruption.

Not worth my time. They really don't have anything to say but negate the facts and downgrade corruption. Such opinions are useless

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