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GD POLITICS
by Galen Druke
Making sense of politics and the world with curiosity, rigor, and a sense of humor. www.gdpolitics.com
Episodes
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Will The Midterms Be Free And Fair?
Heads up: our 2026 election season discount is currently live! It’s 20% off paid subscriptions for first-time subscribers at gdpolitics.com. Join us for the final stretch of the midterms, election night and the aftermath — then it’s on to 2028! You’ll get Thursday episodes, virtual happy hours,...
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Inside The Fight For The House
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com Heads up: The GD POLITICS merch store is back for election season! We’ve got super comfy “Good Data, Bad Data, Not Data” T-shirts, baseball caps, and totes. Paid subscribers can find a discount code in the...
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Alex 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 the risk if we continue on our current trajectory with AI. And he’s trying to write the laws that could change it. Alex Bores is a…
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The Fight For The Right After Trump
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com Heads up: The GD POLITICS merch store is back for election season! We’ve got super comfy “Good Data, Bad Data, Not Data” T-shirts, baseball caps, and totes. Paid subscribers can find a discount code in the...
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Your Midterms Questions, Debated Over Drinks
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. What’s the next swing state: Texas, Kansas or Minnesota? And…
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What 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 Radcliffe and Nathaniel Rakich will join me to answer your questions live while we sip an adult beverage or two. To join the fun, become a paid...
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Why Alaska Is 2026’s Most Unusual Battleground
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com 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 Radcliffe and Nathaniel Rakich will join me to answer your...
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If 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 Radcliffe and Nathaniel Rakich will join me to answer your questions live while we sip an adult beverage or two. To join the fun, become a paid...
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Peltola Unfiltered, Polls Galore, And The Likeliest Senate Flips
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. We have so much to get to on today’s episode! We are long...
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Is 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 it out! If Georgia has become a secondary concern for the parties this cycle, it’s because redder states have upstaged it and Texas is the...
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Georgia’s 2026 Election Is Already About 2028
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. As Election Day approaches, we’re zooming in on some of the...
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The 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 on X: “Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any...
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‘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 going over at Crooked Media called Still Counting. We released our first official episode on Wednesday, and that is what you’re going to hear...
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How 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 hearing it. Hours after I spoke with Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report, the Missouri Supreme Court blocked Republicans’ new...
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You Can’t Poll Away Uncertainty
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. We are exactly two months away from Election Day and just days...
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This 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 sharpening the picture of the battle for Congress. And polls from South Carolina, Nebraska and Kansas have made Democrats optimistic about...
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Are Data Centers The ‘Sleeper Issue’ Of 2026?
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. I want to give listeners a heads-up about some exciting news:...
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Millennials 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 sprightly age of 30 to the ripe old age of 45. (We also talk about Gen Z, but that’s a group that still hasn’t come into its own politically and...
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Could Texas Tip The Senate?
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. On today’s podcast, we tour the seven states most likely to...
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The 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 Pew’s validated voter data, Democrats’ advantage among Latinos fell from 38 percentage points in 2016 to just 3 points in 2024. Other...
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Nate Silver’s Forecast Is Bullish On Democrats
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. Friend of the pod Nate Silver launched his midterm forecast…
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Will 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. Democratic Socialist state legislator Francesca Hong has led the pack for much of the race, but the leading non-socialist alternative has...
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El-Sayed Won. The Polls Did Not.
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. Abdul El-Sayed has officially won Michigan’s Democratic Senate...
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Scandal, 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 to step aside after new details about allegations of abuse emerged from his divorce and custody case. Miller denies the allegations and…
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We Drafted The Perfect Primary Calendar
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. The way Americans choose their presidential nominees is…
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Democrats 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 Fan, set out to find a like-minded candidate to challenge Susan Collins in Maine. As Platner told Jon Stewart, at the end of July 2025…
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What Has The U.S. Actually Achieved In Iran?
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. Back in December, I invited Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings...
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Can 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 primary. Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned across the state with Abdul El-Sayed. Haley Stevens…
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Democrats 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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. A hot new model has entered the villa! (Shout-out to Love…
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Why 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 Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and Ireland. I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe it’s because international politics is an underserved beat in American...
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What Platner’s Exit Means For Control Of The Senate
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. We’ve gotten some dramatic updates since the last time we...
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What 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 conversation I had with Adrian Wooldridge about his new book, “The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism.” Adrian is the...
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America At 250: Polarized, But Not 50-50
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. Happy 250th birthday, America! To mark the occasion, Gabe...
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Late 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 ruled that ballots postmarked by Election Day can still be counted after Election Day in states where that is legal. Nathaniel Rakich of...
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Is This The Democratic Tea Party?
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. As we suggested might happen on Monday’s episode, this week’s...
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New 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 politics are irrelevant to the national Democratic Party. In fact, this week’s congressional primaries in New York may offer a preview of...
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Do Fed-Up Americans Really Move To Canada? And Other Listener Questions
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. Today’s episode is a long-overdue listener mailbag, which…
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What 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 spoke with two election forecasters whose models are beginning to shape how we understand the midterms: Lakshya Jain, head of political...
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How Do Democrats Solve A Problem Like Graham Platner?
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. On today’s podcast, Nate Silver joins me to talk about the…
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Why 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 with a question that gets asked frequently about Ireland: Why hasn’t right-wing populism taken off there? Across much of Europe and the...
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Is Iowa The New Maine For Democrats?
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. Democrats entered the 2026 cycle with a difficult Senate map…
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Sexts, 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 while I was away. We start in Maine, where Graham Platner’s Senate campaign is disputing the number of women he sexted with — a dozen or half…
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The Dollar’s Strange, Fragile Power
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. Jerome Powell’s tenure at the Federal Reserve is over. His...
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How 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 have a positive view of the institution, down from 60 percent or more in 2020. And views by party are, predictably, sharply divided, with...
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Trump, The Lame Duck With Teeth
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. We’ve got a jam-packed election update episode for you today.…
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Trump 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 level of bad. It’s probably time to talk about it.” Across the polling averages, Trump seemed to be nearing, or already at, the worst…
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Live Show: Hot Takes, Warped Maps, and Nerd Trivia
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com A quick note: If you’re not already a paid subscriber, now’s a great time to sign up. Annual subscriptions are currently 20 percent off, which comes out to just $5 a month for twice as many episodes, access to live...
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Can 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 the Trump administration, play some games, and take questions from the audience. Grab a ticket, grab a beer, and come join us! Just about...
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How Prediction Markets Made The World A Casino
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 subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player here. When we first started talking about prediction markets in the...
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The 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 the Trump administration, play some games, and take questions from the audience. Grab a ticket, grab a beer, and come join us! The Senate...
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Making sense of politics and the world with curiosity, rigor, and a sense of humor.
www.gdpolitics.com
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