
Answering your questions on the 2022 midterms, with Steve Singiser
The 2022 midterms are just around the corner, and you sent us a ton of fantastic questions for The Downballot mailbag episode we promised this week, so we brought on Daily Kos Elections contributing e...
27 Okt 202242min

How to read the polls for 2022, with Tom Jensen
How should we be reading the 2022 polls, in light of shifting margins and past misses? Public Policy Polling's Tom Jensen joins us on The Downballot to explain how his firm weights polls to reflect th...
20 Okt 202252min

How Democrats are winning the abortion ad wars, with Kelly Gibson
Abortion has been the number one topic for campaign ads this year, so we're talking with veteran ad maker Kelly Grace Gibson, the founder of the women-led Stronger Than Comms, about how Democrats are ...
13 Okt 202252min

Will scandals sink the GOP's Senate hopes? with Nathaniel Rakich
After an erruption of even more scandals among Republican Senate candidates, FiveThirtyEight’s Nathaniel Rakich returns to The Downballot this week to discuss the effect these sorts of scandals can ha...
6 Okt 202246min

Yes, the polls still matter, with G. Elliott Morris
Yes, the polls still matter! This week on The Downballot, The Economist's G. Elliott Morris joins us to discuss his new book on polling, Strength in Numbers, including the early history of polling in ...
29 Sep 202252min

The surge in women registering to vote, with Tom Bonier
Since Dobbs, women have registered to vote in unprecedented numbers across the country, and the first person to dig into these stunning trends was TargetSmart CEO Tom Bonier, who's our guest on this w...
22 Sep 202251min

Michigan's first blind Supreme Court justice, with Richard Bernstein
Michigan Democrats are defending a narrow 4-3 majority on their state Supreme Court this fall, and one incumbent on the ballot is the fascinating Richard Bernstein, our guest on this week's episode of...
15 Sep 20221h 2min

How competitive is your House district, with Stephen Wolf
Daily Kos Elections just released a massive new data set that breaks down the results of the 2020 presidential election for every last one of the nation's new congressional districts, so we're dissect...
8 Sep 202233min



















