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Since 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates. "The perfect antidote to bloviating talking heads, My History is thoughtful, nuanced, and highly engaging." -Columbia Journalism Review
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Can a President shut down the Senate. Legal scholars agree on an answer "Yes but..." President-Elect / President Trump has invoked an obscure section of the Constitution that has never been used, in order to prod Senators on his appointments. Is it a true power? What is the clause, why is it there, what does it mean, and what might a Supreme Court do? The answer may have to do with a can of Pepsi.
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We look at three stories from history. How did Bismarck North Dakota retain its name? Is there really a Stockholm Syndrome, and Lincoln's pardons and commutations, as seen by a supporter.
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In this episode, Bruce will make 5 points about the 2024 election. On Patreon, he will make 14 points so be sure to join there at www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.com. You can also join Airwave History to get the episode.
Also on this episode, podcast recommendations.
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In case it's interesting, here's some of what Bruce said back in 2016 when President Trump won his first full term.
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The October Surprise scandal that could have been, but almost brought down LBJ. What it says about history and today.
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It wasn't supposed to be close. Then new strategies, a speech and a surprising foreign policy event completely changed the election between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Two vice presidents battled it out. One major poll said Nixon had a lead, the other said Humphrey. Both by only a couple of points. The candidates do their Telethons, and the nation votes. Who will win?
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As we await tomorrow's episode on Nixon v. Humphrey, a note about what's on our Patreon right now: 5 things the media is not talking about (or not that much), so join up there for as little as 5 dollars a month if you want to hear that episode. From third parties to Cleveland Comparisons. On this episode we'll talk about the 5 things in general, and I'll give a sneak peek into one interesting thing about Grover Cleveland's election that makes him sound like a candidate of today.
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As we discuss with David Priess of Chatter Podcast (and the author of books on national security and presidential history) - it's tough to run for President when you are the sitting VP. It hasn't worked that often. Just twice since the 12th Amendment changed the election rules surrounding VPs, a vice president has won the big job. David goes into why this worked. And why on many other occasions, it did not work.
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The "bone and sinew" in Pennsylvania, the voters there, would determine the election of Zachary Taylor or Cass. So said the candidate Zachary Taylor himself. In the final part of our two-party series on the 1848 Presidential Election, we look at stump speeches, the third party Free Soilers, Stephen Douglas speaking for Democratic candidate Lewis Cass and Abraham Lincoln touting Zachary Taylor. We hear stories from newspapers and a budding author starts to ply his trade with a diversion into political satire.
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In Part 1 of our two-parter on the 1848 election, American politics is experiencing its greatest tumult. To long-time politicos the world is upside down as Whigs are working with Democrats, Democrats with Whigs. Writers are declaring a new Young America and an out with the old. America's territory is about to expand greatly, and there's arguments about how. Into this mix, almost as a relief to Whigs, is a new national hero. But is he the right choice for the highest office?
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'The public and the public papers have been much occupied lately in placing us in a point of opposition to each other. ' So wrote Jefferson to Adams about the 1796 Presidential Election, America's first with two candidates with true campaigns. ... Before it was over there would feature negative ads, misconstructions of candidate statements, foreign interference and backlash to that interference, and election count disputes.
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Bunch of topics. We note that at this point in 1988, President Reagan had made stump speeches for his Vice President Bush. We also get into Pennsylvania's East and West sides, and a nearly complete history of PA's Presidential vote. And we get into an argument between two election predictors.
Want more - there's a 4-part series on the 1864 election on Patreon - check it out at www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpoltics.com
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Check out Triviality, Plodding Through the Presidents, American Revolutionary War cast, For the Love of History and others!
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Bruce gets into how many elections in American history have been conducted not with high debate but rather, a netherworld of disinformation and unimportant issues. Related, celebrity or religious endorsements were part of elections past. We also answer some questions.
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We all know Abraham Lincoln wins in 1860, and most know that it was because the Democrats split [except, in many states they actually got back together], that's what we know. But there's a lot to the 1860 election and this episode originally aired in 2020, we get into it. Sam Houston almost-ran. People called themselves woke. (well, "wide awake"). Lincoln faced 4 opponents and one was attacked for being homeless, the other gave up his campaign at the end. Here in all the newspaper printing backroom candlelight and train-hopping politics, we tell the story your history textbook might have skipped.
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From belt buckles, to town-halls to whether the veeps get to debate, a brief history of debate negotiations.
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A look at the Senator who tried to end the Electoral College and the original reasons for it. It has as much to do with 1969 as it does with 1787
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As the name says, a bunch of stories from books and clippings. Happy Labor Day.
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(Amos Ellmaker is the VP Candidate of the 1832 anti-masonic party)
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Bruce was on the Useless Information Podcast Fascinating True Stories from the Flip Side of History
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We answer two questions about The 1864 Presidential Election as we have a detailed, 4-part series on Patreon now
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Plus Inflation and Presidential Election results, and a historical note about taxes on tips.
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We look at the Anti-Masonic Party of the 1820s and 1830s from backwater movement to national stage and its lasting influence on one of the two major parties today, and on political conventions. Was it truly a conspiracy theory-based movement? What can it say about today's politics. And a candidate who didn't want to run for President. We look at all that.
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Music by Lee Rosevere
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I was there in 78-89 as a kid. my mom tried to go there to get us from my dad (he worked for Lockheed). The State Dept. pulled her passport when she got to New York before she could leave the states.
I hope this wonderful podcast will be continuing in this new year. 🙂
Inuit, dude. We try not to call them Eskimos anymore.
This long analysis of the now worst president makes it easy to juxtapose him with the soon-to-be worst one. 🥇 How similar they are in being petty, bumbling + confused. ❔
Hi Bruce, thank you so much for a dozen Reagans. I learned a ton!! I wish there was one of these for every president.