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GD POLITICS
Making sense of politics and the world with curiosity, rigor, and a sense of humor.
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GD POLITICSHow Far Can Democrats Expand The Map?
We’re a week out from Election Day, nearly 30 million Americans have already voted, and Democrats are favored to win both chambers of Congress. But how far…
GD POLITICSBONUS: A Poll Hunter’s Guide to the Final Stretch
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GD POLITICSWhat Trump’s Voters Are Saying Now
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GD POLITICSWill The Midterms Be Free And Fair?
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GD POLITICSInside The Fight For The House
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GD POLITICSAlex Bores Puts The Odds Of AI Doom At 20%
If you thought there was a 20 percent chance that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity, what would you do about it? That’s my guest’s estimate of…
GD POLITICSThe Fight For The Right After Trump
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GD POLITICSYour Midterms Questions, Debated Over Drinks
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GD POLITICSWhat Do America’s Socialists Want?
Heads up: We’re hosting our first-ever virtual happy hour for paid subscribers on Tuesday, October 6, at 8 p.m. ET at gdpolitics.com. Special guests Mary…
GD POLITICSWhy Alaska Is 2026’s Most Unusual Battleground
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GD POLITICSIf The Polls Are Wrong, This Is Why
Heads up: We’re hosting our first-ever virtual happy hour for paid subscribers on Tuesday, October 6, at 8 p.m. ET at gdpolitics.com. Special guests Mary…
GD POLITICSPeltola Unfiltered, Polls Galore, And The Likeliest Senate Flips
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GD POLITICSIs This Time Different In Texas?
Today we’re zooming in on the midterm races in Texas. We started our 2026 tour of the states in Georgia. If you haven’t listened to that episode yet, go check…
GD POLITICSGeorgia’s 2026 Election Is Already About 2028
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GD POLITICSThe AI Apocalypse Comes To Washington
A dam of pent-up concern over AI safety burst this past week. It started with a warning from AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who resigned from Anthropic and wrote…
GD POLITICS‘Still Counting’ After All These Years
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com As you’ve likely heard, Nate Silver, Clare Malone and I have a new podcast…
GD POLITICSHow Far Can The Redistricting Arms Race Go?
Quick note: The mid-decade redistricting wars have been so chaotic that the maps changed again between when I recorded this podcast on Thursday and when you’re…
GD POLITICSYou Can’t Poll Away Uncertainty
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GD POLITICSThis Is What A Blue Wave Looks Like
We’re a week away from the official start of election season — Labor Day — but the polls are not waiting. New Senate surveys in Texas, Michigan and Iowa are…
GD POLITICSAre Data Centers The ‘Sleeper Issue’ Of 2026?
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GD POLITICSMillennials Are Taking Over American Politics
Today’s podcast is about the youth. And when I say youth, I am being generous. What I really mean is millennials, a group that today stretches from the…
GD POLITICSCould Texas Tip The Senate?
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GD POLITICSThe Latino Vote Is Up For Grabs
During the decade that Donald Trump has dominated American politics, no major part of the electorate has changed as dramatically as Latino voters. According to…
GD POLITICSNate Silver’s Forecast Is Bullish On Democrats
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GD POLITICSWill Wisconsin Elect A Democratic Socialist?
In case one progressive-versus-moderate swing-state showdown wasn’t enough, Wisconsin is running it back this week with its Democratic gubernatorial primary…
GD POLITICSEl-Sayed Won. The Polls Did Not.
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GD POLITICSScandal, Insurgents, And Big Money
A heads-up: We’ll be covering this week’s primaries live starting at 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday at gdpolitics.com Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller is under pressure…
GD POLITICSWe Drafted The Perfect Primary Calendar
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GD POLITICSDemocrats Can't Fool The Working Class
By now, the story of how Graham Platner was recruited to run for Senate is well known. Two Democratic Socialist-aligned operatives, Daniel Moraff and Leanne…
GD POLITICSWhat Has The U.S. Actually Achieved In Iran?
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GD POLITICSCan Progressives Win Swing States?
Democrats’ messy internal politics are on full display as we enter the final stretch of primary season. The marquee event is Michigan’s Democratic Senate…
GD POLITICSDemocrats Are Favored. But By How Much?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com The full episode is available to paid subscribers. Once you become a paid…
GD POLITICSWhy Europe’s Politics Keep Breaking
Some of the episodes that have gotten the strongest response since launching GD POLITICS have been about politics outside the United States — the United…
GD POLITICSWhat Platner’s Exit Means For Control Of The Senate
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GD POLITICSWhat Does 'Liberal' Even Mean Anymore?
I hope everyone is recovering nicely from their July 4th hangover. At 250 — hell, at 35 — those things aren’t single-day affairs anymore. Today’s episode is a…
GD POLITICSAmerica At 250: Polarized, But Not 50-50
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GD POLITICSLate Ballots, Iran Polling, And A Maine Toss-Up
Shortly before we started taping today’s episode, the Supreme Court handed down decisions in a couple of cases we’ve been watching. In Watson v. RNC, the court…
GD POLITICSIs This The Democratic Tea Party?
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GD POLITICSNew York’s Dress Rehearsal For 2028
New York City is not America. It is denser, younger, more renter-heavy and more ideologically left than the country as a whole. But that does not mean its…
GD POLITICSDo Fed-Up Americans Really Move To Canada? And Other Listener Questions
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GD POLITICSWhat The Early 2026 Midterm Forecasts Say
We are four and a half months out from Election Day 2026, which means forecast season is officially beginning. On today’s episode of the GD POLITICS podcast, I…
GD POLITICSHow Do Democrats Solve A Problem Like Graham Platner?
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GD POLITICSWhy Right-Wing Populism Hasn’t Taken Off In Ireland
While I was in Dublin recently, I sat down with Hugh Linehan of The Irish Times’ Inside Politics podcast to talk about Irish and American politics. We start…
GD POLITICSIs Iowa The New Maine For Democrats?
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GD POLITICSSexts, Autopsies, and Primary Chaos
On today’s podcast, I’m back from vacation and joined by Mary Radcliffe of 50+1 and Jacob Rubashkin of Inside Elections to catch up on everything I missed…
GD POLITICSThe Dollar’s Strange, Fragile Power
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GD POLITICSHow Partisan Is The Supreme Court, Really?
To some eyes, the Supreme Court faces a legitimacy crisis. Favorable views of the court are hovering around historic lows. Just 40-some percent of Americans…
GD POLITICSTrump, The Lame Duck With Teeth
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GD POLITICSTrump Hits A New Low
As I was sorting through polls last Friday, preparing for Monday’s podcast recording, I started thinking, “Hmm, Trump’s approval is looking bad. Like, a new…
GD POLITICSLive Show: Hot Takes, Warped Maps, and Nerd Trivia
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GD POLITICSCan Public Health Win Back The Public?
Heads up: We’ve got a live show at the Comedy Cellar in New York City with Nate Silver and Clare Malone coming up on May 13. We’ll talk about the midterms and…
GD POLITICSHow Prediction Markets Made The World A Casino
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GD POLITICSThe Senate Map Has A Maine Character
Heads up: We’ve got a live show at the Comedy Cellar in New York City with Nate Silver and Clare Malone coming up on May 13. We’ll talk about the midterms and…
GD POLITICSWhere The Gerrymandering Fight Goes From Here
Heads up: We’ve got a live show at the Comedy Cellar in New York City with Nate Silver and Clare Malone coming up on May 13. We’ll talk about the midterms and…
GD POLITICSA Year Of Carney In The Age Of Trump
Heads up: We’ve got a live show at the Comedy Cellar in New York City with Nate Silver and Clare Malone coming up on May 13. We’ll talk about the midterms and…
GD POLITICSHot Politicians, Deaths In Office, And The Nebraska Senate Race
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GD POLITICSThe Gerrymandering Fight Comes To Virginia And Florida
Heads up: We’ve got a live show at the Comedy Cellar in New York City with Nate Silver and Clare Malone coming up on May 13. We’ll talk about the midterms and…
GD POLITICSAI Has Officially Entered Mainstream Politics
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GD POLITICSWhat The Iran War Has Done To The Economy
When we last checked in on the economy on the podcast, on February 23, Harvard economist Jason Furman said it looked like the U.S. had pulled off the first…
GD POLITICSTrump Declares Victory. Voters Send A Different Message.
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