2019 Best Election Podcast to Follow
3 min readOct 13, 2019
During my free time and my commute, I follow American elections! Because they are too damn entertaining. It is like real-life reality TV. I use YouTube and Podcasts to get my pleasure. The below is the list of Podcasts I follow and why I do it.
- Election — 2020 Ride Home: The Best one so far, hosted by Chris Higgins. As the name suggests, it is a podcast for your ride home from work about the election. No about a particular person’s policy. He gets into the nuance of small kinds of stuff, which I find interesting. Example: Have you thought about the little boxes you have in the federal 1040? that says “Presidential Election Campaign.” He explains that. Also, answers listener questions on elections.
- NPR political podcast Used to be weekly, now became daily. nothing much to say it’s NPR
- The Rachel Maddow show I like Maddow’s show regardless of her being a centrist. I like the way she opens with a history lesson and then connects it with the current situation happening.
- All in with Chris Hayes — It is Chris Hayes what not to like. I like the new live show with live Audience he does on Fridays, and sometimes I also listen to his podcast “Why is this happening” especially one episode where he discusses with Sen. Ted Cruz on climate change.
- Cuomo Prime Time I like this show because Cuomo is somewhat getting some progressives like Cenk and Ana on his show. But I watch his show mainly because when he has a guest something exciting will happen. Like that Interview with Rudy Giuliani
- The Young Turks (main show) — I love TYT, I love their passionate responses to other right-wing takes on a portion of some speech given by democrats. I hope they blow up like a giant media company like CNN or MSNBC
- Damage report by John Iadarola — another gem from TYT. This show has somewhat become a Tweet show; most of the time, John reacts to Tweets from Trump or AOC or another political celebrity and some time has interviews with candidates running for office in local elections or state-wide elections. That’s nice. I hope someday; he does something else then reacts to tweets. That’s just my hope.
- Pod Save America — I guess it’s like an unwritten rule or something that if you want to follow American politics, you must also listen to this podcast. I like it, not love it. I like their interviews
- Rolling stone’s Useful Idiots — a relatively new show. Their main goal is to beat Pod save America! I love the four food groups they do: Republican suck, democrats suck, isn’t that horrible and isn’t that weird.
- Pantsuit Politics — I like this one because they have a healthy conversation with two people with different ideologies.
Let me know what you guys think about this and let me know any other Podcasts that are good at covering the elections. I am looking for left-wing and center podcasts. Thanks :)