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The Age of Polarization: Election Specials

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In a special 4-part series for The Last Best Hope? will take a deep dive into the 4 key US elections that have shaped the 2024 race: Bill Clinton’s generational-shift victory in 1992, the drama of 2000 in which Bush beat Gore even while losing the popular vote, the election of the nation’s first black president in 2008, and the norm-shattering rise of reality TV star Donald Trump in 2016 one of the biggest political upsets in US history We'll explore the campaigns and the characters and the underlying political dynamics which has created our contemporary age of polarization. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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