What Did Your Straight Ticket Buy? Both Parties' Platforms, Graded

Podcast: Consequential Actions Podcast · Jeff Kellick

Opublikowano: 2026-10-01

What Did Your Straight Ticket Buy? Both Parties' Platforms, Graded. A Contemporary Bonus Episode to the series: Parties, Ideologies, and Systems. A party-line vote is a vote for a party, and the one formal statement a party adopts of what it stands for is its convention platform. Almost nobody reads it. Bob Dole said he never read his own. This episode reads them. Each of the two major parties wrote a platform, then won the White House and both chambers of Congress this decade: the Democrats in 2021 and 2022, the...