Election Day is 34 days out, and this hour is about the races most voters never think about until the ballot is in front of them. Guest host Robert McNeily, in for Jenny Beth Martin, opens with the history: from 1902 to 2022 the president's party lost House seats in 28 of 31 midterm elections, yet in the five modern midterms that flipped the House, the Senate changed hands only twice. Then three organizers explain what that history means for Georgia, which opens early voting on October 13, and for Ohio, where Sherrod Brown is trying to take back a Senate seat.
Guests: Carmen Bergman, Senior Advisor to Greater Georgia; Tom Zawistowski of Freedom for All PAC; and Kendra Biegalski of the DeKalb County Republican Party. Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, hosts.
Today's topics:
• 34 days out: why "so goes Georgia, so goes the nation" applies to a midterm, not just a presidential year
• The midterm record: the president's party lost House seats in 28 of 31 midterms from 1902 to 2022, but the Senate flipped in only two of the last five that flipped the House
• Georgia's General Assembly record: gas tax relief, property tax reduction, school choice and the Riley Gaines Act
• Carmen Bergman on whether the top of the ticket carries down-ballot races, or the other way around
• Early voting opens in Georgia on October 13; Illinois and Virginia are already voting
• Poll watchers and poll workers from both parties, and how Greater Georgia fills those roles
• KnowYourBallotGA.com: the September launch built to walk Georgia voters through the down-ballot races
• Tea Party Patriots Action and the continuing fight for the SAVE America Act, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, on citizenship to vote
• Tom Zawistowski's free billboard program for patriots along high-traffic roads, in rural areas and on farms
• Ohio: Sherrod Brown's economic populism against Senator Jon Husted's pro-growth record
• Reagan's Eleventh Commandment and how a PAC balances data centers and other factions inside the party
• Kendra Biegalski on how Republican turnout in deep blue DeKalb County swayed Georgia's 2024 statewide results
• How a county party recruits candidates, supports them after they win and holds them accountable
• This day in American history: the Continental Congress moves to York, the first hydroelectric central station, Wyoming's suffrage constitution, the Hoover Dam and the first televised World Series
• Call to action: IWillSaveAmerica.com, ten things you can do in five minutes; Georgia voter registration closes October 5
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