politics that all gets talked about way too much by politics in the media, and i was talking about housing, rent, food costs. so they feel disconnected from politics because they don t think politicians are speaking about the issues that matter most of them. listen, i m guilty of talking a lot about january 6th, but not so much because jet necessarily a sensational story, but because none of it matters if we don t have a democracy that doesn t fundamentally function. you can t do anything about economic policy, student debt, or the climate if you don t have a representative democracy. are they aware of the existential threats to democracy is that something that even comes across the radar or really doesn t have to be so literally personal, that otherwise it doesn t make a dent. so their views of democracy and politics is the politics of some working. when i ask about views of the republican party, they do believe that republicans are very extreme, but they don t
you know who knows a break falls you re way and you u.s. centered never had to cross over. don bolduc and is only running for points behind maga hasten, so maybe carrying a fake shield from the 300 movies with fake arrows sticking out of it is good politics? who knows? it s a mad mad world. thank you chris, great show. you bet. thank you all for joining us this hour. consider what happened over the space of just three days in january of last year. three events on three consecutive days that continue to shape our politics right up to this very moment. on january 5th of last year in georgia, john ossoff and raphael warnock won their runoff elections to the united states senate which handed the control of the chamber to the democrats. the next day, january six, we all know what happened that day. and then the day after that, on january 7th back in georgia. election systems in rural
is that a fair assessment? how do you see the turnout operation in georgia? one of the pieces of my approach to politics that seems to confound people is that i treat all voters as folders. i don t take for granted that anyone shares my values will choose to vote. so where the typical political dynamic says that persuading people that don t share your political ideology all the time to come with you for once, my approach is to say, how do we share our values and how do we persuade people either to share those values or to participate in the election? because those are both very important binary choices, and we choose to overlook the vast community of people who choose not to vote because they don t feel themselves in the conversation that gets relegated to the sort of, all that s base voting. it s not base voting if you don t participate in the elections. you re not a base voter unless you actually vote. we see those communities as
and november is likely going to come down to some 400 to 600,000 people who did not vote last night, but might vote in november. from people who don t follow politics that closely, who don t vote in primaries. and if we re being honest, probably don t watch a lot of cable news. and that is basically former obama speech writer john five rows theory of the case nationwide. we know how to people who watch every night of the january 6th hearings are likely to vote we know how the people who think the 2020 election was stolen or likely to vote. what we don t know is how the people who haven t really been pain attention will vote, and even a still shot to vote at all. he s sending off across the country like this one to find
a guy named chuck morris, even in a hotly contested matchup like that. only 140,000 people voted. new hampshire is a small state, but still, when you compare those numbers to what we should expect in the general election, it paints a clear picture picture. in 20 28,000 people voted in the general election. in the last midterm back in 2018, nearly 600,000 people did. so as much as we can analyze those 230,000 people who collectively voted in the new hampshire primaries last night. it s not really a good predictor of anything? after all, those are the people who really pay attention to politics. the people who vote in primaries. and november is likely going to come down to some 400 to 600,000 people who did not vote last night, but might vote in november. from people who don t follow politics that closely, who don t vote in primaries. and if we re being honest, probably don t watch a lot of cable news. and that is basically former obama speech writer john five rows theory of the case