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25

2008

Podcast Episode Foreign Powers and American Elections

With Russia's invasion of Georgia, events of the world have inserted their way into the 2008 election While it is new for candidates to be ordering world powers around or making campaign speeches in foreign capitals, the Unites States has, since its inception, operated on a world stage, and candidates for the Presidency rarely remain silent or merely defer to the incumbent administration. Voters too, change their view of candidates based on events outside of the US. From 1796 onward, we take a look at the indirect (and sometimes direct) role that foreign powers play in influencing American elections and how challenging and incumbent party candidates attempt to work the actions of foreign powers into their message.


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