The More Perfect Union Podcast

Midterm Madness (Ep. 180)

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 01:39:54 +0000

The MPU hosts make their final predictions about the midterms and what the world will look like post-midterms no matter which party prevails on Tuesday. And here’s a link to the Feedspot Blog Reader that ranked The More Perfect Union the #20 political podcast in the universe (or at least, The Milky Way). https://blog.feedspot.com/political_podcasts/

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Pop Goes The Political Culture, November 3

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 19:31:11 +0000

Hello, hello MPU-universe! We are officially in the last weekend before the election and if you’re like me, you’re busy doing some sort of Get Out The Vote action! Whether you are phonebanking, canvassing, texting, or planning to provide rides to the polls, you are AWESOME! Let’s make this election go down in history as...

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Motivating Millennials

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 13:09:22 +0000

By Kevin Kelton This Tuesday, Democrats need young voters to turn out in record midterm numbers. Yet news report after news report still tells us millennials just aren’t motivated enough to vote. “I’m too busy” or “Voting won’t make a difference” are among the array of excuses young people give when asked why they don’t...

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Bring Back The Balance (Ep. 179)

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 07:06:30 +0000

In this episode the gang talks about the role of social media in the horrific violence of last week and in our devolving political discourse, Trump’s Hillary-esque problem with non-secure cell phones, and the best way for voters to help bring back the balance in our national politics.

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Pop Goes The Political Culture, October 28, 2018

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 19:51:22 +0000

“Every now and then a madman’s bound to come along. Doesn’t stop the story. Story’s pretty strong. Doesn’t change the song.” – Stephen Sondheim, Assassins It is Sunday in America and we are grieving for 11 souls lost to a mad gunman at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. At the same time we are...

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Uncivil War (Ep. 178)

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:11:34 +0000

This week the gang looks at the final days of the midterm campaign in the age of incivility, Trump’s assault on transgender and non-binary individuals, and how a Medicare Buy-In program could be the pathway to single payer Medicare-For-All without the onerous tax burden. Then they muse on Elizabeth Warren’s prospects for 2020 and Hillary Clinton’s prospects for anonymity.

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Pop Goes The Political Culture, Week of October 15, 2018

Sun, 21 Oct 2018 16:15:12 +0000

By Rebekah Kuschmider, MPU co-host Hello, hello MPU-niverse! Remember how on the podcast last week we were lamenting how it had been a slow news week? Well, we won’t be having that problem again! This week we saw the Saudi government say that a likely political assassination was actually a fistfight. Mitch McConnell announced his...

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Kanye, Taylor, Elvis & Alec (Ep. 177)

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 06:56:58 +0000

This episode covers the tightening midterm polls and what they portend for Democrats in November and beyond, Kanye’s weird White House visit, Taylor Swift’s entry into politics, the Fox News obsession with Maxine Waters and “angry mobs,” and the potentially dangerous effect of Alec Baldwin’s SNL Trump impression on the electorate. Plus Kevin reveals the secret reason he missed last week’s...

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