Natalie Jackson has been a professional pollster for 20 years. She and Roger have a calm & rational discussion about the actual status of the Presidential election race, the problems with polling alternative Dem nominees...
Steve Schale ran President Obama’s two Florida victory campaigns and he knows Florida politics inside and out. He and Roger discuss whether Florida is in play for the Biden campaign, how Democrats can reassemble the Obama...
Anderson Clayton is the youngest state party Chair in the United States. She and Roger discuss North Carolina politics: how it’s a key target for the Biden campaign to flip in November, her efforts to...
Simon Rosenberg has been involved in Democratic politics for three decades, first with the Clinton campaigns, as an adviser to the Obama Administration and the founder of the New Democratic Network (NDN) think tank. He...
Special guest co-host Reuben Rodriguez, a self-described Latino Centrist, returns to the podcast in a special extended episode as he & Roger preview the upcoming 2022 midterm election. Including an overview of the U.S. political...
Tom Bonier has been a consultant to Democratic campaigns, including Senators Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren, as well as President Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign. He is now CEO of the Democratic data firm Target Smart...
This summer, Kansas voted NO on a state Constitutional amendment that would have banned abortion. Ashley All, Spokesperson for Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, joins Roger to discuss how her group mobilized voters in a deeply...
Robin Johnson, along with Representative Cheri Bustos, former Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, put together a research project about how Democratic representatives in 10 midwestern states won in districts carried by Donald Trump....
Tom Winter, a former state representative, is now running for U.S. Congress in Montana’s newly created 2nd Congressional District. He joins Roger to discuss how to run & win as a progressive in Montana, the...
Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall joins Roger to discuss how the mainstream media is set up in a way that gives Republicans the advantage, the reasons Democrats have a harder time with campaign messaging,...