Politics Brief

Drew Desilver is a senior writer at Pew Research Center. He joins The Takeaway to discuss what some problems may be with a system that hasn’t changed in nearly 90 years.

Reporter Eliza Griswold follows political campaigns in Pennsylvania. She joins The New Yorker Radio Hour to talk about the controversial Mariner East 2 Pipeline Project, which has rare bipartisan support... and opposition.

Melissa Mark-Viverito, vice president of strategic engagement for the Latino Victory Fund and former New York City Council speaker, joins The Brian Lehrer Show to survey how Latino voters are feeling about and voting in the midterm elections. Also joining the show is John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, who talks about the latest polling on young voters.

Clare Malone, senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight, joins On The Media to talk about the figures, myths and exaggerations making their way into the national conversation ahead of the midterms. 

Traditional canvassing can help 'get out the base' but it has little success winning over voters on the other side. So, as WNYC's Fred Mogul reports, canvassers on Staten Island are trying an experiment. 

WNYC's Brian Lehrer talks with Washington Post national security reporter Nick Miroff about how the caravan of asylum seekers traveling from Central America is playing a role in the midterm elections. Plus New York Times reporter Annie Correal shares snapshots from the caravan of migrants making their way through Mexico to the U.S. border.

The New Yorker Radio Hour takes a look at several candidates on the far right openly espousing white-supremacist and white-nationalist views in this midterms election season. Reporter Andrew Marantz tells host David Remnick that candidates who used to “dog-whistle”—use coded language to appeal to racist voters—now openly make white-supremacist statements that Republican Party leadership won’t disavow. 

Danielle Root is the voting rights manager at the Center for American Progress. She joins The Takeaway to discuss what it'd take to make America's voting systems better.

Rachel Silberstein, staff writer at The Times Union, joins The Brian Lehrer Show to talk about the latest debate between incumbent Rep. John Faso and Democratic challenger Antonio Delgado in New York's highly contested District 19 congressional race.

Walter Shaub, senior advisor at the watchdog group CREW, and former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics, joins The Brian Lehrer Show to talk about Capitol Hill's swelling crisis of ethics.