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Moderate Republicans in Nevada Tend to Win. Unfortunately, There Aren’t Many Running Anymore
We’ve been waiting months for last week’s primaries in Nevada because we feel, and have been stressing for a while now, that Nevada is likely the most important state in the 2022 midterms. With the June 14 primaries now settled ...
Nevada’s Future Executive Suite Could Test Democracy
We’ve been waiting months for this week’s primaries in Nevada because we feel, and have been stressing for a while now, that Nevada is likely the most important state in the 2022 midterms. With the June 14 primaries now settled ...
Nevada’s Governor’s Race: A New Sheriff in Town?
We’ve been waiting months for this week’s primaries in Nevada because we feel, and have been stressing for a while now, that Nevada is likely the most important state in the 2022 midterms. With the June 14 primaries now settled ...
Nevada’s Congressional Gamble Will Hurt Democrats This Cycle
We’ve been waiting months for this week’s primaries in Nevada because we feel, and have been stressing for a while now, that Nevada is likely the most important state in the 2022 midterms. With the June 14 primaries now settled ...
Nevada’s Senate Race Remains the Most Competitive this Cycle
We’ve been waiting months for this week’s primaries in Nevada because we feel, and have been stressing for a while now, that Nevada is likely the most important state in the 2022 midterms. With the June 14 primaries now settled ...
For Inflation’s Sake, It’s Time to Let New Jerseyans and Oregonians Pump Their Own Gas
New Jersey and Oregon are the only states in the nation that bar drivers from pumping their own gas. In New Jersey, it’s a local idiosyncracy that’s as ingrained in the state’s culture as Taylor ham (or pork roll… if ...
Pony Express: Under the Banner of Heaven
Michael and Lars discuss FX on Hulu’s latest true crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven.
Democrats Ignore Mormon Voters at Their Peril
Donald Trump won two-thirds of Mormon voters in the 2020 election. This was up from just shy of 60% in the 2016 election when third party candidate Evan McMullin sapped a large share of Latter-day Saints’ (LDS) votes away from ...
How Have Trump’s 2022 Endorsements Gone? (So Far)
Former President Donald Trump gets a lot of press for wading into both federal and state elections and proclaiming his favored candidates. Of particular importance are the primary elections in which he endorsed a candidate he views as sufficiently “America ...
Pony Express: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Michael, Alex, Lars, Louis, discuss the latest MCU entry, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Politics Express: Nevada’s 2022 Elections
Politics Editor Lars Emerson is joined by The Postrider‘s Editor-in-Chief Michael Lovito and Jacob from Wild & Free: A Battle Born Podcast to discuss why Nevada is such an important state in the 2022 midterms, its governors race, Senate election, ...
Pony Express: Moon Knight
Marvel recently concluded (the first season of?) Moon Knight, their latest Disney+ show, and the first to focus on a character who hadn’t been previously introduced in an MCU movie. The premise is… hard to explain, but Michael, Lars, and ...
Floor Fight: Championship
Two months and ten episodes later it all comes down to this. Our two finalists, Hillary Clinton and Henry Clay, face off in the championship round as we compare their strengths, weaknesses, policies, and role in American political history. Which ...
Floor Fight: Round Five
With four losing candidates remaining after Round Four, the penultimate round pits our four finalists (the “Federal Four”) against each other to determine who makes it to the championship. Our last remaining #1 seed, Al Gore, faces Hillary Clinton on ...
Politics Express: Divergent Decades
Politics Editor Lars Emerson and Editor-in-Chief Michael Lovito are joined by With A Gay Twist‘s Zachary Pen to pick what moments, elections, or decisions in each decade they’d pick to “go the other way” in order to make for a ...
Floor Fight: Round Four (The “Electable Eight”)
With eight losing candidates remaining after Round Three, and only one #1 seed left standing, four candidates are knocked off in Round Four (the “Electable Eight”) to see who makes it to the next round. Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, George ...
Leaving Las Vegas
The story of Las Vegas is one of survival, renewal, and the American spirit. In fact, in many ways, the story of Las Vegas is the story of America told in its most extreme. Luck becomes loss; industry becomes service; ...
Leading to Las Vegas
The story of Las Vegas is one of survival, renewal, and the American spirit. In fact, in many ways, the story of Las Vegas is the most extreme version of America’s story. Luck becomes loss; industry becomes service; hope presages ...
Floor Fight (Bonus): President Al Gore
In this bonus episode of Floor Fight, Lars and Michael are joined by a foreign policy expert to discuss the hypothetical Al Gore presidency had he won the 2000 election. How does President Gore staff his White House? How does ...
Floor Fight: Round Three
With 16 losing candidates reminaing after Round Two, and only one #1 seed left standing, eight candidates are knocked off in Round Three to see who makes it to the next round. Al Gore, William Jennings Bryan, John Kerry, Henry ...
The Historical Case for Why Biden Will Win Reelection
To say it’s too early to start prognosticating about the 2024 election is an understatement. We’re only about a third of the way through President Joe Biden’s term, and a lot has happened even in the last few months that ...
The One Part of the Constitution That Cannot Be Amended
Whether or not you agree with every one of its components, the Constitution provides a backbone to the entire existence of the United States. It is the holiest of rules we agree to disagree on and helps us build consensus ...