Navigating Shifting Political Landscapes ft. Grace Panetta

In this episode, Grace Panetta, a political reporter at The 19th, joins Kyle Kondik, Carah Ong Whaley and Kylie Holzman to discuss several key issues for the 2024 election, including media coverage of women candidates, voter turnout, dramatic shifts in election law landscape, and ongoing threats to democracy posed by election denialism. 

Also, in this episode, Kyle discusses his new analysis on Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball about how the most populous counties versus the least populous counties have voted in presidential elections from 1996-2020. In 1996, Bill Clinton won both the most (by 15.7 percentage points) and least populous counties (1.8 point margin). That means the difference between the two was 13.9 points. By 2020, the gap between the most vs. least populous counties was 39.2 points. 

Links in this episode

• How the Other Half Votes: The United States, Part Two by Kyle Kondik
• The 19th articles by Grace Panetta
• Nikki Haley’s Time for Choosing by Tim Alberta 
• The Red Ripple: The 2022 Midterm Elections and What They Mean for 2024