{"id":14441,"date":"2022-10-18T18:20:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T01:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14441"},"modified":"2022-10-18T18:37:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T01:37:28","slug":"dont-boo-hoo-vote-bradcast-10182022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14441","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Boo(-Hoo)! Vote!: ‘BradCast’ 10\/18\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic voters, it seems, are an easily spooked bunch. A few bad polls and some seem ready to all but throw in the towel on the November midterms. But now is not the time for that sort of thinking. As discussed on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, there is simply too much at stake this year — Constitutional freedoms, democracy itself, survival on Planet Earth, just to name a few — to get sidetracked by despair. To paraphrase Obama, don’t boo-hoo! Vote! (And make sure everyone else you know does the same!) [Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n

It was always gonna be an uphill fight this year. It still is. But it makes no sense to wallow. It does make sense to get to work. As President Biden correctly noted<\/a> this afternoon, “Today we face an inflection point, one of those moments that only come around every several generations where there’s so much change happening — technologically, politically, and socially — that the decisions we make now are going to determine the future of our nation and the future of your generation for the next 30 or more years.”<\/p>\n

With all of that in mind, these are among the stories covered on today’s program…<\/p>\n