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Newest Episode: Sun February 05, 2012. 06:15 PM
Today's political debates, particularly on cable news, talk radio and blog comments can be limiting. In this podcast, Bruce Carlson applies as much history as possible to the politics of today.
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Sun February 05, 2012. 06:15 PM
From Grover Cleveland to Barack Obama e discuss that concept of 'coattails' - the impact of a Presidential win on his party's hopes for Congress. Each Presidential election it is asked, can downticket races grab on to the President's 'coat'? - this one goes back to the days you might see the POTUS in a coat - can they get in on his win. What if he doesn't win?
Will the Presdient have them? It's a complex subject as its only in modern times that all states conduct congressional and Presidential elections at the same time.
Will the President even win and if he doesn't win - can his party take the House anyway, can the parties 'switcheroo?'
Or: Can you have coattails with no one in the coat?
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Wed January 25, 2012. 12:06 PM
Should Hawaii and Vermont choose a GOP nominee? Should Alabama and South Carolina pick the Democratic nominee? Can a candidate like Romney rack up delegates from states likely to vote for President Obama to get a primary win over his new arch rival? It might be a question today.
It's been on the minds of partisan since at least the 1860 convention.
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Sun January 15, 2012. 12:11 AM
How a plan to help then Governor Ronald Reagan led to the creation ofthe Firewall, the First in the South primary in South Carolina. It's joined the early states of IA, NH in the role of nomination decider. We look at its origins and a couple of other times South Carolina has changed the politics of the nation.
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Sun January 08, 2012. 04:35 PM
I will look to comments on the Facebook site for feedback on the My History Can Beat Up Your Politics podcast. The discussion tends to be more robust, questions that have been answered can be seen, and other readers can jump in.
The 'My History Can Beat Up Your Politics' Facebook Site allows you to discuss issues with other listeners. There are threads on current podcasts, current issues and favorite books to comment on. On occasion, I will use this site for Question and Answer Podcast.
Also, you can commment below.
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Sun January 08, 2012. 04:27 PM
The 'My History Can Beat Up Your Politics' Facebook Site allows you to discuss issues with other listeners. There are threads on current podcasts, current issues and favorite books to comment on. On occasion, I will use this site for Question and Answer Podcast.
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Sun January 08, 2012. 03:18 PM
We've touched on most topics discussed in American political life in the course of this podcast. For Access to most of the podcasts we've published for the last five years, the archive is available Simply pay through paypal and download the episodes once you are transfered to the archive site.
The archive provides hours and hours of podcasts on history and politics, and a discussion of most relevant issues.
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Sun January 08, 2012. 03:15 PM
Like what you hear? Want more? For Access to most of the podcasts we've published for the last five years, the archive is available Simply pay through paypal and download the episodes once you are transfered to the archive site.
The archive provides hours and hours of podcasts on history and politics, and a discussion of most relevant issues.
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Sun January 08, 2012. 03:13 PM
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. we look why the war started at all, especially where there were many reasons why it did not need to happen. And as strange as it sounds, the anniversary of the breakup of the Beatles may actually shed some light.
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Thu January 05, 2012. 12:52 PM
New Hampshire's first in the nation primary has been a decider and an oracle for a long time. It's been a quirky American tradition surprising to outsiders. In recent decades, though, in today's light-speed politics, it has suffered some setbacks as a selector of the President. We look at NH's history and what it means for today's battle between Romney, Santorum, Paul and Gingrich
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Thu December 29, 2011. 12:41 PM
Iowa awaits. What will GOP voters do this year? We answer a lot of questions in this one, but the central theme is an attempt to predict what might happen over the next few months. Also the Keystone State, National Socialism and the 27th Amendment.
It's a big one. Grab a chair and listen to the last hodge-podcast of 2011!!
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Thu December 29, 2011. 12:36 PM
For Access to most of the podcasts we've published for the last five years, the archive is available Simply pay through paypal and download the episodes once you are transfered to the archive site. Hours and Hours of podcasts on history and politics!
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Mon December 26, 2011. 12:28 PM
King Corn or underdog energy option? We look at ethanol, from its fictional portrayal on one TV program to the special treatment it gets in the Senate and the White House.
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Thu December 15, 2011. 11:52 AM
When Barry Goldwater received his party's nomination in 1964, it was an attempt on the part of the GOP to go with an aggressive message to take on Johnson. It didn't work then, but there can be little doubt it worked long term for the GOP. Are Republicans about to nominate another Goldwater? We look at Goldwater and compare(and we also contrast ) to Newt Gingrich
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Tue December 13, 2011. 09:36 PM
With another Iowa approaching it's interesting to look at how we viewed the situation in 2008. As it turned out, Obama and to a much lesser degree Edwards surprised many by winning Iowa. Some of the same dynamics may be present this year.
In time for the Iowa caucuses, we look at the caucus, how it works and the the history of the Iowa Caucus and its fairly recent importance in presidential selection. A hidden factor in the Democratic side of the Iowa caucus makes it difficult for polls to predict.
Again from 2008. New episode this week.
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Fri December 02, 2011. 12:27 PM
We look at alcohol prohibition in two countries, especially American prohibition and how American fervor for the 18th amendment which enacted Prohibition, changed to fervor for the 21st repealing it. What made Americans change? How did drys become wets? What can it say about the drug legalization issue?
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Sat November 19, 2011. 02:51 PM
I talked so much about the Constitutionality of healthcare in this cast, so re-running is necessary The basic issues are there, but I must add a caveat here - this was over a year ago, before the lower court decisions and reasoning, and a lot of this is speculative.
I plan to use a future Q&A to do a little 'clean up' and address anything I'd like to add now with a year and a half of wisdom.
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Sat November 12, 2011. 03:34 PM
We look at one GOP candidate's father, his race for the Presidency because it is both an interesting look at early campaign dynamics in an election of American's past, and because it may provide insights into one candidate's drive to run today.
The fact that there are only two candidates who can trace their name into 20th century national politics at all is also discussed.
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Wed November 02, 2011. 11:14 AM
A variety of current topics based on listener questions and other things. We look at the last large-scale attempt to put money into smaller banks, French sacrifice during the Revolutionary War and one candidate's pizza.
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Thu October 27, 2011. 11:19 PM
The whole world was watching Chicago in 1968 and it seems, the whole political world may be watching the protests now in New York and other areas. Chicago '68 ruined the incumbent Democratic Party's chances for reelection and didn't stop the war immediately as organizers wanted. Yet it certainly had an impact on public opinion. We see a large group of protests now, albeit smaller in number than in the late sixties. We look at Occupy protests in comparison to Chicago and the cities.
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Tue October 18, 2011. 10:54 AM
"Can we just skip the conversation this year?" one is tempted to ask. But no it appears, there will be talk - at least highly speculative talk - of whether President Obama will drop vice president Biden from the ticket. Yet activity in recent elections makes it not so strange, perhaps to discuss the subject.
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