The Best Election Podcasts To Keep You Up-To-Date

The Best Election Podcasts To Keep You Up-To-Date As the primaries wind down and party conventions just a couple months away, the dust is beginning to settle and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are emerging as the likely major party presidential candidates. The onslaught of media coverage is the usual circus (par for the course in the modern media), and continues to focus on the wrong things and abdicating responsibility of their own content. The bottomless number of news articles, cable programs, tweets, hot takes, debates, etc. are overwhelming and mostly not substantive. Broadcast networks are no longer avenues for informed debate, and the efficient alternative to the chaos of cable news and twitter are podcasts. There is an ease of listening to a group of smart, well informed people have a substantive, mature conversation about the election and important issues. The hosts discuss the news, give their analysis, and avoid the party stooges (party bias is upfront and not labeled as objective on podcasts) in shouting matches on broadcast news. Listeners have the opportunity to get election news while on the go, and take advantage of small increments of time to learn about the issues.