Kudzu Vine Southern Politics
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We cover Georgia & Southern Politics like Kudzu! Featuring Tim Shiflett's GOP Outrage of the Week
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Alex Diaz
Alex Diaz will be join us to discuss Nevada politics. Alex will also give us an update on the presidential race in Mexico.
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Dr. Allan Lichtman
Lichtman created the Keys to the White House model with Soviet seismologist Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981. The model uses 13 true/false criteria to predict whether the presidential candidate of the incumbent party will win or lose the next election. Using this model, Lichtman has accurately predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1984, with the exception of 2000, although he did forecast successfully that Al Gore would win the popular vote that year. He ran for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland in 2006, finishing in sixth place in the Democratic primary. In 2017, Lichtman published The Case for Impeachment, laying out multiple arguments for the impeachment of Donald Trump.
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Dr. Anthony Chergosky
Dr. Anthony Chergosky will joinn us to discuss Wisconsin politics
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Lakshya Jain of Split Ticket
Lakshya does modeling and data pieces for Split Ticket and handles their presidential ratings. He is a machine learning engineer who analyzes political data in his free time. He went to UC Berkeley (class of 2019 – BA, 2020 – MS), majoring in computer science, and now work in the tech industry. His writing has also appeared in Sabato’s Crystal Ball and The Bulwark.
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Jon Ryder will join us to discuss Arizona Politics
The Executive Director of the Maricopa County Democratic Party Jon Ryder will join us to discuss Arizona Politics
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Dante Chinni of the American Communities Project
Dante Chinni is a data and political journalist and director of the American Communities Project, which is based at the MSU J-School. He is a winner of the Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism and co-author of the book Our Patchwork Nation. Chinni is a contributor to and writer for the Wall Street Journal and to NBC News's Meet the Press, for which he produces the weekly Data Download segment.
Starting in November of 2022, the American Communities Project is embarking on a three-year study of American Fragmentation, funded by a $2.4 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That study will combine survey research, data analysis and on-the-ground reporting in an effort to better understand what is dividing the country and what might help stitch it back together.
A graduate of Michigan State, when Dante is not in East Lansing he can usually be found living in Washington with his wife Christina Ianzito and their dog Skeeter.