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Podcast: Beyond Politics
Episode: Could the “Moneyball Effect” Actually Save American Politics?
Description: The way we run political campaigns has changed drastically in the last two decades. Today, political campaigns spend three times more money and leverage far more sophisticated data and media tools, paired with an unnerving amount of information on voters. But those extraordinary powers have mostly been used not to have a more nuanced, persuasive public conversation, but to stoke outrage and election turnout. It is possible to argue that way we run campaigns has been a huge factor in how angry, divided, and dysfunctional our country has become.
Today, guest Michael Cohen – author of Modern Political Ca...