Ask The Politics Guys: Voter Fatigue?
This week’s Ask The Politics Guys question comes from Chris, who lives near Chester, England.
Does the US electorate suffer from voter fatigue due to democratic overload?
This week’s Ask The Politics Guys question comes from Chris, who lives near Chester, England.
Does the US electorate suffer from voter fatigue due to democratic overload?

Mike talks with former Tennessee governor, U.S. senator, education secretary, and presidential candidate Lamar Alexander about his new book, The Education of a Senator, and what his long career reveals about how American politics actually works. Alexander argues that while Washington’s “dysfunction screen” gets most of the attention, the Senate can still produce major bipartisan…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS In this listener mail episode, Mike and Jay tackle a bunch of questions including whether we’re spending the right amount of money on the right things for national defense, how to deal with a future in which machines are doing so many of the things people currently do, news outlets and columnists we…
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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS In this installment of our “Election 2020” series, featuring six Northern Kentucky University students, we discuss how the Trump and Biden camps differ on immigration and citizenship. We discuss the Mexico border wall & border security, asylum changes under the Trump administration, DACA &…

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Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike talks with University of Maryland sociology professor Dana R. Fisher about her research on activism and protests, the Women’s March, who protests and why, whether protests can drive real political change, differences between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party, and lots more. Follow Dr. Fisher on Twitter Show Links The Women’s…