Episode #143: Split Party, Split Court




Ken Rudin's Political Junkie show

Summary: September begins with a look back on some favorite interviews from the Political Junkie archives. We start this week with a chat with <a href="http://www.barrymgoldwaterjr.com">Barry Goldwater Jr.</a>, son of the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, a candidate who — like Donald Trump — had serious problems uniting his party in advance of the election.<br> Uniting behind a campaign issue has also proven difficult. <a href="http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/team/lawrence-m-noble">Larry Noble</a> of the Campaign Legal Center talks about the years-long efforts to get lawmakers to pass a campaign finance overhaul bill. But even when that came to pass, in 2002 — the McCain-Feingold Act — the results were not long lasting. And in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, more money is being spent on campaigns than ever before.<br> The Olympics are over, which leads to one of our trivia questions: Who was the last president who went undefeated in his political career — in general elections AND primaries? <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/aaron-blake">Aaron Blake</a> of the Washington Post came by for a chat about presidents and defeats they suffered.<br> And finally, <a href="http://www.revolution.com/team-member/ron-klain/">Ron Klain</a>, Al Gore’s former chief of staff, talks about the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, when the Supreme Court decided the oh-so-close Bush v. Gore race.<br> Music played in the podcast:<br> <a href="https://www.joshwoodward.com/song/wrongsideoftherevolution">Wrong Side of the Revolution (Instrumental Version) – Josh Woodward</a><br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lro5t2yKHT4">Barry Goldwater Radio Jingle (1964)</a><br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaZWCGs7tFw">Love Your Money – Daisy Chainsaw</a><br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk8xXMs4nNY">It’s Over – Ray Orbison</a><br> <a href="http://ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/33345">Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) – spinningmerkaba</a><br> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"></a><br> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a><br>