Election Day is 34 days away, Georgia opens early voting in 13, and this hour is about the races most voters never think about until the ballot is in front of them. Guest host Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, sits in for Jenny Beth Martin and 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. So goes Georgia, so goes the nation, and in a midterm that comes down to turnout.
Carmen Bergman, Senior Advisor to Greater Georgia, explains why about 50,000 Georgia voters stop at the top of the ballot and never reach the legislative races and constitutional amendments below, and what KnowYourBallotGA.com does about it before early voting opens October 13. Tom Zawistowski of Freedom for All PAC tells the story of the barn billboards: the big billboard companies would not sell to Trump supporters in 2020, so his group printed its own and asked farmers along Ohio's interstates to hang them, 103 in 2024 and none destroyed, at 60 cents per thousand impressions against 65 dollars for television. The offer is now national and free. Dr. Kendra Biegalski, Chair of the DeKalb County Republican Party, describes what it takes to run a Republican party in deep blue DeKalb County: property taxes up almost 50 percent in five years, a county 200 police officers short, and an election board that voted 3 to 2 against cleaning its voter rolls.
In this episode:
• The midterm record, 1902 to 2022: 28 of 31 cost the president's party House seats; the Senate flipped only twice in the five modern midterms that flipped the House
• About 50,000 Georgia voters stop at the top of the ballot; KnowYourBallotGA.com runs from governor to the amendment questions
• Early voting opens in Georgia on October 13; voter registration closes October 5
• Reports that Georgia ballots could be matched to voters, and who is acting on them
• The billboard companies said no in 2020, so the signs went up on barns: 103 in Ohio in 2024, none destroyed, now free nationwide
• Ohio's Senate race: Sherrod Brown against Jon Husted; why the billboard does not say vote for Republicans
• The grizzly bear and the tiger: Tom Zawistowski's case to voters who say they are staying home
• Deep blue DeKalb County: property taxes up almost 50 percent in five years, 200 officers short, and a 3 to 2 vote against cleaning the voter rolls
• Data centers as a national security issue, from a nuclear engineer who chairs a county party
• This day in American history: York, the Vulcan Street plant, Wyoming's suffrage constitution, the Hoover Dam and the first televised World Series
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01:56 — So goes Georgia, so goes the nation: the president's party lost House seats in 28 of 31 midterms
05:34 — Carmen Bergman: does the top of the ticket carry the down-ballot races?
06:34 — KnowYourBallotGA.com and the 50,000 Georgians who stop at the top of the ballot
08:33 — The SAVE America Act and election integrity in Georgia
10:36 — Poll watchers and poll workers from both parties
15:32 — Persuasion and turnout: you cannot win Georgia without both
16:27 — IWillSaveAmerica.com: ten things you can do in five minutes
18:43 — Tom Zawistowski and the free barn billboard program
20:52 — 103 billboards in 2024: Free for them, taken from you
28:51 — Our voice has been muted: a text message the carrier would not send
37:20 — Codifying Trump's policies with a narrow majority; Ohio's Ninth District; the 2030 census
39:49 — What inspires Tom: Ohio 2016, 30,000 volunteers and a poll nobody believed
47:15 — Data centers as a national security issue, from a nuclear engineer
48:30 — Clean voter rolls voted down 3 to 2; Marc Elias and Democracy Docket
49:54 — How a county party picks its priorities
58:18 — Two school board candidates and working with the DeKalb Democrats on poll watchers
59:07 — The DeKalb candidate slate for 2026
01:00:13 — Meet-and-greets and a voter registration event at Disability Link
01:01:39 — Low-propensity voters: a phone bank, a pizza and postcard party, 60,000 votes
01:03:51 — This day in history: York, the Vulcan Street plant, Wyoming, the Hoover Dam
01:10:34 — Only American citizens should decide American elections
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