Democratically: 2020

In this episode Karin decides at long last who she will vote for on Tuesday. You need to listen to this one RIGHT to the end because it takes quite an unexpected journey of twists and turns. Karin explains how she thinks about each of the candidates in the race, how she has been torn between two particular candidates, both of whom she admires, and she makes her choice between them. Eventually!

In this episode, Karin catches us up on the fast moving events of the campaign following the New Hampshire primary. The field is now reduced to 8 candidates, and front runners are starting to emerge - meanwhile, Mike Bloomberg has not yet competed in any race. Karin runs through each candidates' chances. Karin also has a lot of feelings about the race, so she checks in with friend of the pod Betty Teng, who is a psychoanalyst and the host of the Mind of State podcast, about the pain of hopefulness. Also: although Andrew Yang has left the race, the Yang Gang made a big impact on the conversation about the future of work and life in America. So in this interview, recorded before the New Hampshire primary, Karin speaks to Chuck Smith about Yang's unique run for office, the meaning of Yang's "Math" slogan, and much more. 

In this special episode, Karin reports back on the Iowa caucuses to do a recap of the results from the first state to express a Presidential preference. She covers the debacle that was the failed election process, and runs through who won and who lost on the night. She also interviews friend of the pod James O'Malley from the ground in Iowa where he was enjoying the nerdiest trip in the world, attending as many candidate events as he can squeeze in. 

Karin records a special mini-episode to update folks on the Iowa caucuses reporting failure.