NOTE: Professional Left Podcast is off until November 5. Instead, Driftglass will be on Hal Sparks AND The Brad Cast this week on Wednesday October 28, and both Driftglass and Blue Gal will join Hal Sparks on Election Night, November 3. See you then!
Episode 1034 traces how polling has systematically underestimated Republican support in every election since 2012, and digs into why Karl Rove’s on-air meltdown that year became the spark for a Republican base that already treated losing as betrayal rather than democracy at work. Driftglass and Blue Gal argue the real crisis isn’t bad math, it’s that decades of “Both Sides” media coverage broke the normal pattern where one party’s failures should boost the other’s popularity. The episode also revisits the 2024 Harris campaign’s failed courtship of Dick Cheney Republicans, arguing that chasing a mythical bloc of “decent Republicans” wastes energy that should go toward actual swing voters. It closes on a bright note: a local Illinois newspaper just landed a major grant to strengthen community journalism for years to come.
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