Mar 29, 2021
Zac McCrary is a self proclaimed politics nerd and unapologetic "geeker-outer" on things like campaign merch and pro wrestling. He's also one of the top Democratic pollsters in the country and host of the very fine Pro Politics podcast. We talk about his journey through the business and the current state of play both...
Mar 22, 2021
Rick Ridder has truly done in all in the consulting game and then some: numerous Presidential and Congressional campaigns, local referendums on marijuana legalization and baseball teams, a bevy of international consulting gigs in more countries than he can remember and even a brief sojourn as a record producer. It's a...
Mar 15, 2021
Rick Perlstein has written four books that, full disclosure, we are big fans of here at NMTE so having him on to talk was both an honor and a thrill. We zoom around several topics from Carter to Reagan to Trump to racism, trying to trace the line that got us from the mid 60's to today. Not many of America's ills were...
Mar 8, 2021
In a career spanning nearly 50 years, Joe Slade White has seen it all: From the Zoo Plane of the McGovern campaign to the underfunded Democratic House and Senate races of the 80's to seeing his longtime friend and client Joe Biden being elected President in 2020. Along the way he's picked up a trick or two, countless...
Mar 1, 2021
David Hill has written about gambling and his life for Grantland, The New Yorker, The New York Times and well, everywhere. He tells us how his upbringing in Hot Springs, Arkansas and his early career as a union organizer led to him being a professional writer and set the scene for his first novel, The Vapors. David is...