FiveThirtyEight Politics

I don’t think I’ve ever reached the end of one of these podcasts while still conscious, & I mean that in the best way possible. It’s the most reliable way to put me to sleep(people speak at a calm, even pace, on the same predictable topic, and the audio stays at about the same level, regardless of who’s talking). I haven’t learned a single thing from this podcast cuz I’m asleep within the first 20 minutes, and I’m so grateful for that.

I used to love this show. I have been to multiple live shows, I have submitted two questions for model talk and they both were answered on the show, but these days I’m finding the show to be unlistenable. Hope this is just an awkward transition post Nate.

I am statistics person, so love it when they discuss margins of error and probability and in the outlying things that can make it difficult to predict. Unfortunately, their post election takes lean towards one political direction. Would be refreshing to hear a podcast from someone that can take an unbiased look at both the left and the right. Unfortunately, this is not the podcast.

The hot takes were bad. Americans are hungry for a populist agenda… Biden may have taken a few of sanders ideas and ran with them in a way the dem establishment was okay with. But that didn’t satisfy let alone convince enough people the dems have the backs of American workers. Trump is appealing because he knows how to speak a populist agenda even without enacting one… second hot take is that leftism is loosing on a global stage. Which isn’t the case unless said leftism is not leftism and is really the enactment of authoritarian policies while leaving workers poorer. This episode is very Eurocentric, white liberal elitist take.