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So You Wanna Be President? with Chris Matthews MSNBC
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The ultimate playbook for winning a presidential campaign. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and campaign veterans who have had front row seats to presidential history dive deep into the six most important lessons learned from presidential campaigns that win. Chris and his guests tap into their experience, historical insight, passion for electoral politics, and love for our country to explain why these lessons matter, and how they’ve separated winners from losers.
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1 - Win Iowa
Lesson one: win Iowa. An astounding number of Democrats and Republicans won their party's nomination after winning first in the Iowa caucuses—but America's first battleground hasn't always been a priority for campaigns. Jimmy Carter was the first to realize that a win there could propel a candidate into the national spotlight.
Chris Matthews examines Carter's approach to the 1972 campaign with Gerry Rafshoon, who handled political advertising for the candidate, and veteran journalist Judy Woodruff, who covered the campaign in her early years with NBC.
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2 - See Something, Say Something
Lesson two: see something, say something. When unscripted moments flare up in a campaign, voters want to see candidates who can show some spontaneity. They want to know that their nominees can live without their talking points—that the lights are on and somebody's home.
Chris Matthews dissects the most memorable campaign turning points with Peggy Noonan, a Reagan speechwriter, and Jon Allen, a political analyst at NBC News.
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3 - The Walls Have Ears
The country is always listening—so don't say something you don't want every voter to hear.
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4 - Play from the Back
Know how to play from the back—great politicians turn losses ... into wins.
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5 - Ride the Galloping Horse of History
Winning campaigns choose to make the tough calls that put candidates on the right side of history.
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6 - Go Negative
It's the oldest, worst, and most effective part of American politics: go negative.
Kundenrezensionen
Chris Matthew at his best
Like his book “life is a campaign”, these podcasts are super. He talks politics, real politics not partisan bickering from either side. He makes me realise that politics is not just the two sided black and white. Although it might reminisce of better times, it also gives hope. Great
Lose the music
I’m a fan of Chris Matthews and always listen to Hardball podcasts. I’m starting to listen to “So You Wanna Be President”. I find the content very interesting but the music makes it almost unbearable for me to continue listening. I’m a classical musician (opera singer) who appreciates other types of music, but this is just jarring and irritating and I’m puzzled as to how this music was chosen for this informative series. N. Green Berlin