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"How to Choose the Most Electable Democrat in 2020," advises Politico. "Amy Klobuchar's best argument for 2020: Electability," CNN reports. "Is Electability The Only Thing That Democratic Voters Want?" WGBH, the Boston NPR affiliate, wonders. These articles, all from a one-week stretch this February, speak to a prevailing compulsion in our politics, boosted by our media.
Time and again we hear about the primacy of "electability," a nebulous but self-evidently important criteria, when selecting a candidate. But what does "electability" mean exactly? How can someone have, in effect, been elected in our minds before an actual election takes place?
This week, we will drill down the origins of the term "electability": how it's a concept embraced by brain-dead, horse-race-obsessed pundits, why it has inherently racist and sexist implications, and how it's designed to draw voters away from candidates they actually agree with to ones more in line with the agenda of the corporate wing of the Democratic party party.
Our guest is Anoa Changa, host of the podcast The Way With Anoa.
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"How to Choose the Most Electable Democrat in 2020," advises Politico. "Amy Klobuchar's best argument for 2020: Electability," CNN reports. "Is Electability The Only Thing That Democratic Voters Want?" WGBH, the Boston NPR affiliate, wonders. These articles, all from a one-week stretch this February, speak to a prevailing compulsion in our politics, boosted by our media.
Time and again we hear about the primacy of "electability," a nebulous but self-evidently important criteria, when selecting a candidate. But what does "electability" mean exactly? How can someone have, in effect, been elected in our minds before an actual election takes place?
This week, we will drill down the origins of the term "electability": how it's a concept embraced by brain-dead, horse-race-obsessed pundits, why it has inherently racist and sexist implications, and how it's designed to draw voters away from candidates they actually agree with to ones more in line with the agenda of the corporate wing of the Democratic party party.
Our guest is Anoa Changa, host of the podcast The Way With Anoa.

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