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Wake Up To Politics
At only 19-years-old, Gabe Fleisher has already made quite a name for himself. When he was 9-years-old, Gabe started getting up at the crack of dawn to send out a daily email newsletter with his analysis of the political news cycle. He called it Wake Up To Politics, and it slowly developed a large r...
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19 Episoden
The Mailbag Episode
For the final episode of 2020, Gabe answers your questions. He’ll weigh in on questions about the Electoral College, ranked-choice voting, motivating...
Why Transitions Matter
As the Trump administration blocks Joe Biden from kicking off his presidential transition, Gabe is joined by Martha Joynt Kumar, the director of the W...
Election Night Viewer’s Guide
Have you ever wondered how TV networks call the presidency on Election Night? In this episode, Gabe gets the inside scoop from Arnon Mishkin, the head...
Who Actually Picks The President?
The Electoral College is one of the most controversial parts of the American political system. But it’s also one of the least understood. In this epis...
Inside the “Judicial Wars”
How did Supreme Court confirmation battles become so toxic? Gabe is joined by Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim and High School SCOTUS founder An...
Presidential Debates Through the Decades
Gabe is joined by two debate experts — Alan Schroeder of Northeastern University and Ed Lee of Emory University — to dive into the history of presiden...
How Mail-in Voting Works
Gabe is joined by NPR's Miles Parks and Business Insider's Grace Panetta to break down mail-in voting in the 2020 election. They'll offer helpful tips...
The 26 Words That Created the Internet
Donald Trump and Twitter are sparring over what users can say on social media. But the fight is one that goes back decades, to the very dawn of the In...
How To Pick A VP
It’s the question on everyone’s mind right now: who will Joe Biden pick as his vice president? While unconventional promise made by Joe Biden and publ...
The future of the two-party system
Is the two-party system on its last legs? Or is it too big to fail? In this episode of Wake Up To Politics, Gabe delves into the past and future of po...
Generation Pandemic
Studies have shown that the most important time for a person’s political development is in their early years. So how is the coronavirus pandemic impac...
Quarantine campaigning
How do you run a campaign for the presidency when your candidate and all your volunteers are stuck at home? In this episode of Wake Up To Politics, Ga...
The mail-in election?
Coronavirus has quickly altered almost every facet of American life, and politics is no exception. In this episode of Wake Up To Politics, Gabe shares...
Campaigning Through The Ages
It may feel as though technology and modern innovations have remade campaigning in recent years, but has politics truly changed? In this episode, Gabe...
The Second Gilded Age of Politics
“There are two things that are important in politics,” 19th-century Republican party boss Mark Hanna once said. “The first is money, and I can't reme...
A user’s guide to polls
Gabe breaks down the past and future of political polling, with some help from Steve Kornacki, national political correspondent at NBC News and Natha...
Gerrymandering in the 21st Century
In this episode, Gabe talks to Professor Sam Wang of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project about how Democrats and Republicans gerrymander district map...
How do the Iowa Caucuses work?
In this episode, Gabe talks to Iowa Public Radio reporter Clay Masters and Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand to break down how the Iowa caucuses work and ho...
Introducing Wake Up To Politics, the podcast!
In partnership with St. Louis Public Radio, Gabe Fleisher is extending his popular Wake Up To Politics newsletter with a brand new podcast. From expla...