How Polls Work

This hour, we’ll talk about how polling data is collected – and about how we should interpret the results – with UT-Dallas political science professor and polling expert Harold Clarke.

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What Third-Party Voters Want

This hour, we’ll talk about the many reasons these voters have for sticking by candidates who have little chance of winning with Emma Roller. Her opinion piece “Third-Party Voters Know What They Want” appeared recently in The New York Times.

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Big Politics, Big Money

This hour, we’ll talk about where big cash for political campaigns comes from and what’s really being bought with Nick Penniman, co-author of “Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It.”

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Cultural Collision

This hour, we’ll put our current political division into historical context by talking with the author of “Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections): The Battles That Define America from Jefferson’s Heresies to Gay Marriage.”

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How We Vote

This hour, we’ll talk about how we often cast votes based on a number of superficial factors with the author of “Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics.”

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