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2018-09-24 episode: Chapter 15: The Story (pca.st)

In the series finale, Barack Obama and Jon Favreau have a conversation on the story we need to tell about America. What should the Democratic Party’s message be in 2018?

0m0s - commercial

3m - intro audio

3m54s - Jon Favreau intro

The challenges

inequality, racism, sexism, immigration, national security

Need to reconnect with grassroots

Need new message in fucked up media era

4m25s - Favreau speaks about Obama’s storytelling

5m what message allights with values and appeals to the broadest possible coalition

5m30s Obama’s philosophy on speeches

The “message” can’t be just a slogan. The message is the story. The slogan encapsulates the story.

7m16s Montage of many speakers

7m16s speaker 1 what are we trying to say

8m03s Speaker 2 - strong messages start with values

20m18s we’re not going to agree on everything; don’t reach for false sense of unity

21m07s Favreau wraps up montage

It should be about democracy

22m57s commercial break

27m43s Obama interview

2018-09-17 episode: Chapter 14: The Ceiling (pca.st)

2018-09-10 episode: Chapter 13: The Bench (MP3 file) (pca.st)

How can we recruit a new generation of winning candidates? Three young, recently-elected Democrats talk about what it’s like to run for office.

People: Becky Bond, Van Jones, Bruce Reid, Jane Kleeb

15mish Van Jones talking about authenticity

17m30s litmus tests are dumb

18m43s Jane Kleeb

19m30s Heath Mellow in Omaha

2018-09-03 episode: Chapter 12: The Party (MP3 file) (pca.st)

8m01s Jane Kleeb - Chair of the Nebraska DNC

9m30s — how they lost many local NE races

10m56s Obama’s effect

11m20s — Obama 2008 was incredibly successful, but Obama for America attracted talent away from the DNC

11m34s Clare Malone - Jan 2017

13m13s DNC underperforming (Keith Ellison)

14m20s – more from Jane Kleeb about NE

15m35s Failure of the DNC to build grassroots coalitions

16m00s Theeta Scotchpole Harvard poli sci sociology

16m33s developing meaningful communities of likeminded people

17m05s Christian evangelical networks

17m15s unions have been waning or hobbled or destroyed

34m49s Democrats need more democratic policy choices

35m00s commercial break (honey, Swell Investing)

39m30s Keith Ellison talking about how third parties are not the way to reform

41m21s Tiffany Muller talking about Citizens United

47mish Grassroots activism, and thinking beyond Democrats (e.g. Indivisible)

53m08s Democratic party primaries

54m00s — Tom Perez endorses Andrew Cuomo over Cynthia Nixon

54m30s — Democratic party deciding “electability”

54m50s — Unity Reform Commission

2018-08-27 episode: Chapter 11: The Filter (MP3 file) (pca.st)

How can Democrats break through in today’s media environment? A strategy for rethinking the way we communicate with the public.

03m13s - Nixon vs Kennedy debate in 1960

5m27s - signposting the whole episode (this is about how Democrats can win with the environment we have, rather than the environment we wish we had)

6m13s - Nick O’Mealy talking about loss of shared experience.

6m55s - David Binder, pollster for Obama. silos. fairness doctrine

8m33s - cable news, CNN, 1980

9m55s - the Internet

14m17s - Gary Hart goes down in 1988*

15m09s - Brian Buetler - market environment

15m52s - things got worse with the advent of social media

16m12s - incentives for scandal on the Internet

17m30s - Facebook, and emotions associated with clicks (Dan Pfeiffer)

19m30s - Obama’s focus groups (David Binder)

20m24s - Engagement with content because of emotion (Kristen Soltus-Anderson)

21m27s - looking at the headlines

25m45s - Russian attack on the media

30m40s - (commercial) Swell

32m00s - (commercial) Sleep Number

34m00s - (commercial) Master Class

35m40s - Hillary’s media strategy

36m30s - 2008 era media management is dead (Dan Pfeiffer)

Obama 2012 and Hillary digital manager talks strategy. “Going around the media is fastest”. Campaigns should organize by function

40m20s - Rs spend 25% on digital, Ds spend 5% (Laura Olin)

40m40s - Amanda Lippman and Dan Wagner

mail vendors tend to set the strategy (“come the fuck on!”). Stop making strangers talk to strangers, and instead build networks of communities

42m10s - Ranting about old-style attack ads (Dan Pfeiffer)

Beto O’Rourke doing wonderfully.

43m00s - “The people who have their shit together are Indivisible, Swing Left, people like that.” (Dan Pfeiffer)

43m10s - Using social media to bypass the media (Becky Bond)

43m10s - Beto O’Rourke using social media

43m25s - Becky Bond talking about Facebook working for Bernie.

46m40s - content matters (Dan Pfeiffer) - make things inspiring.

49m00s - “We want to live in an idealized world of ‘All The Presidents Men’” (Dan Pfeiffer)

50m30s - Tanya Somanader, Chief Content Officer on the Crooked Media team, talking digital strategy.

58m30s - The origin of Crooked Media, and Tanya Somanader’s vision. Things that are authentic are key.

2018-08-20 episode: Chapter 10: The Blob (pca.st)

What does a bold, progressive economic agenda look like? Policy experts talk about the big ideas that can shape the Democratic Party’s platform.  

2m0s intro

5m35s the need to go big on economic issues

6m40s Neera Tandem

13m25s MI focus group guy on deficit spending and minimum wage

14m10s David Binder

15m07s Stephanie Kilton Stoneybrook Bernie’s economic advisor on deficit spending

17m39s even some liberal economists think we need to be mindful of the deficit

18m25s Becky Bond

19m36s commercial break

23m52s Favreau: here are the most interesting proposals

24m40s $15 minimum wage

26m00s EITC

28m00s UBI

29m48s Gene Spurling against UBI

31m00s universal work

32m50s local administration

36m20s getting people the skills they need to transition jobs - universal skills training

38m10s debt free public universities

41m30s universal health care

45m00s supporting unions

48m00s corporate consolidation

50m00s “better deal”

52m30s tech monopolies

2018-08-13 episode-a Chapter 8: The 1% (MP3 file) (pca.st)

2:06 FDRs SOTU 2nd Bill of Rights

5:05 greed is good Jill Laporte

6:24 Rich Geppilton labor history

18mish Lena Kahn antitrust

20m10s commercial break (simplysafe)

2322 safety net shredding

2018-08-06 episode: Chapter 7: The Newcomers (MP3 file) (pca.st)

[00:07:10] Cecelia Nunes

37m55s Commercial break 4m25s

42m21s messaging on immigration and how don’t ask don’t tell was more successful.

43m30s Ali Niranam intro

45m18s Cecelia Nunes talks about meeting people where they are at

47m09s it’s not the rabid 20% we need to convince, it’s the 60% that might be swayed

47m33s data scientist Dan Wagner crunching the data on districts that Obama won but Hillary didn’t. some of the important storytelling involves immigrants like Albert Einstein, Sergey Brin, and Steve Jobs

48m19s Dan Wagner: Democrats fail to recognize that we are largely a Christian country, and in our effete cosmopolitan bubbles, on Sundays, we have brunch, drink mimosas, and eat avacado toast.

49m05s what we do instead of being effective. We bitch, we call them racists, etc.

49m18s Ali talks about their 2013 partnership with the Evangelical Immigration Table for really effective ads

51m11s Favreau summarizing, talking about how a message that speaks to and respects culture, regardless of religion, is going to be the most effective.

53m16s abolishing ICE Sean mcelwee

58m Ted Kennedy letter, and living to fight another day

2018-07-30 episode: Chapter 6 The Big We (pca.st)

11m11s - Demographic strategy

11m11s - can we focus on rebuilding the Obama coalition

11m21s - “well, we have a math problem”

11m42s - (statistic that I want to copy down) in 2012, 34% of Barack Obama supporters were white voters without a college degree.

12m04s - Ruy Teixeira - “Demographics is destiny”

…13m17s 270 electoral

15m05s Dan Wagoner Dr Doom

17mish

18minish Arlie Hocschild Lynn from UCLA “linecutters”

20mish Van Jones West Oakland “kale” “yoga” building a wall

…21m29s a strongman personality doing well

22m00s Adam Seward - Senior editor TheAtlantic. #othering

23mish Nate Cohn talks about racial resentment

24m41s commercial

34m30s Rebecca social identity that everyone can be a part of

“Your place in line is secure”

36m00s Obama’s Jeremiah Wright response in 2008

38m19s Ashley’s ketchup sandwich story

2018-07-23 episode: Chapter 5: The Backlash (MP3 file) (pca.st)

37m #gerrymandering

46m Simone Sanders - press secretary for Bernie 2016 #bernie and current press secretary for PrioritiesUSA

2018-07-16 episode-d Chapter 4: The Voters (pca.st)

How do we fix what’s wrong with the Democratic Party? Focus groups of Democratic voters in Texas and Michigan, along with thousands of callers, offer their views.

34m00s what does it mean to be a big tent party - how the focus groups guessed at various demographics

36m00s identity politics

37m00s the left vs the center

39m40s modeling voters by the DCCC

41m00s state politics in flyover states

48m00s what should the Democratic party message be? My answer would be inclusive and fair and democratic

49m30s focus group guy quote: “you just got to be fair” I would love to include that quote in my own version of how to put the Democratic party together.

2018-07-16 episode-c: Chapter 3: The Nightmare (pca.st)

Why did Democrats lose the 2016 election? The candidates, campaigns, and conditions that led to America’s worst person becoming president. 

26m20s Donald Trump on The Apprentice - they don’t say it, but they describe parasocial bonding

32m Trump and Clinton were two very unpopular candidates. Interview with David binder, who conducted focus groups for the Democratic Party

39m the night before the election

41m the results come in

2018-07-16 episode-b: Chapter 2: The Change (pca.st)

2018-07-16 episode-a: Chapter 1: The Democracy (pca.st)

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