Heard Tell

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the data and reality of presidential polls and how we are using them wrong with economist Dr. Stephen Popick, as we talk data vs vibes and fact vs rhetoric as the election approaches.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

00: Intro/ Economics on an election year, how housing policy affects politics

10:01 Using presidential polls wrong, & what to watch for

18:20 Is Harris underperforming? Debating a close election

24:30 Enthusiasm gap? The data of bipartisan apathy.

26:26 Trump's low ceiling/high floor and how his base gives him an advantage, swing states, rust belt vs sun belt, blue wall vs red south

32:30 What to make of "voter purges" headlines in election years

37:40 An Economist take on presidential promises to "fix" the economy and how policy promises are usually more bad than good

41:10 The importance of advisors to a president, and judging the folks a candidate surrounds themselves with in determining our votes

43:20 Politics of economic coverage during Christmas/economic literacy problem of the American public

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson goes through all the news media, social media, political, and cultural hot mess surrounding the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), what it is supposed to to, what some folks think they ought to be doing, and how to discern context from content when suffering folks are a huge news story.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson goes through the week that was covering the state of the 2024 presidential race, why we should get rid of the term "low information voters," the Mark Robinson hot mess, why the latest Continuing Resolution shows why congressional dysfunction is at the heart of our political chaos, and asks do endorsements still matter in presidential races?

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson takes the news that the House of Representatives will once again push through a short-term Continuing Resolution, or CR for short, with the help of the US Senate to avert a government shutdown, and explains not only how congress has become a dysfunctional mess, but who is ultimately to blame for that mess, and how much of the current government and political hot mess we see comes from that same source.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson talks endorsements in the presidential race, do they still matter, and some examples from the past as well as what to watch for in current ones.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson explains where the term “low information voters” came from, why we shouldn’t use it, and what using such nomenclature tells us what politicians and pundits really think about the very voters they are supposed to be trying to convince.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson give the background to the headlines about North Carolina Lt. Governor and GOP nominee for Governor Mark Robinson's latest batch of scandals, how the sequence of events leading up to the airing of Robinson's online dirty deeds tells its own story, and a teachable moment on how to discern what we are seeing in the news media beyond the current news cycle, election, and even calendar year.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson does a quick recap of where the 2024 presidential election is at, how we got here, what to watch for going forward, Trump's ceiling, is Harris underperforming? swing states that will decide it and more.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking to our friend Alex Muresianu from The Tax Foundation to explain "no tax on tips" and why there is bipartisan political agreement for it, and bipartisan agreement in policy circles it is a bad idea. Plus, Alex gives us some useful guidelines to use when we hear terms like "tax cut" "raise taxes" and "run business like a government" on the campaign trail and how the rhetoric usually doesn't match up with policy or political reality. Also, Alex gets into how understanding tax as the foundational building block of funding the government has been lost, how we should be talking about tax policy, and why it is so hard to get folks to care about the long-term financial wellbeing of our country.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

Timestamps:

00: Intro/ Policy silly season, tax policy basics, importance of tax policy to US government

8:12 Tax terms in politics: good working definitions of "tax cuts" "raise your taxes" and "run the government like a business" and how that nomenclature does/doesn't help understanding the issues

17:22 The "no tax on tips" debate that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both campaigning on, that has bipartisan congressional support, and bipartisan policy wonk agreement that it is a bad idea

31:40 Infrastructure spending as an example of how tax spending and policy work on a practical level and as political tools

42:30 Long-term view of tax policy, why it is so hard to have discussions on taxes and issues like the national debt.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking with our friend, writer, podcaster, and pastor from the great state of Minnesota Dennis Sanders about Rust Belt politics, the changing electorate of the midwest, history and economic factors that drive voters, and sorting out political assumptions and buzzwords from the people that are living and voting in the Midwest of America. Plus, we get Dennis's first-hand accounts of how Tim Walz performed as his governor through the George Floyd/BLM situations and riots that Dennis not only lived but pastored his own community through, COVID response, and the controversies over Tim Walz military service. Plus, we talk Trump adjusting to Biden dropping out, preview Trump v Harris and Vance v Walz debates, and more.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

Timestamps:

00: Rust Belt politics, what they are, how they have changed, what it means in political terms

12:45 Economic rhetoric and what it means when explaining rust belt politics and changing electorate, how the people are ahead of politicians and media in economic change and nomenclature

18:30 The swing state coalition that is need to become president

24:30 Where Trump v Harris stands, Trump's adjustment from Biden to VP Harris, how 2024 is/isn't like 2016 and 2020, why Kamala Harris isn't Hillary Clinton and Trump shouldn't think she is

36:15 Dennis talks about Tim Walz as a governor, how he handled George Floyd/BLM riots which Dennis was there for, how Walz handled COVID, Walz military service and how it was presented when he ran, and narratives now versus back then

50:15 Fair and unfair criticisms of Tim Walz from a constituent of Tim Walz, how progressive is Tim Walz? Previewing Tim Walz v JD Vance debate

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