Demos Action’s Sean McElwee joins Jordan to talk about youth turnout, running younger candidates and why a lot of “conventional wisdom” should be tossed out.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Beane 2018 Podcast is back!<\/a> On this edition Jordan is excited to talk to Demos Action’s Sean McElwee. A forward thinking analyst and a must follow on twitter (@seanmcelwee) Sean is a leading voice on what progressives need to do to get into office. Joining Jordan on the pod, the two discuss what Sean’s role at Demos Action is (4:55), the biggest lessons he learned from the 2016 election (6:24) and, with California set to restructure it’s motor voter program when it comes to registration, what happened to voter participation when Oregon set up a similar program (7:52). Additionally Jordan and Sean talk about how to increase youth turnout in future elections (12:44), what campaign conventional wisdom we should relegate to the dustbin of history (19:07) and how younger candidates can navigate a trickier landscape to become successful & get into office (22:20).<\/p>\n

All in all it’s a unique conversation that all candidates should be having right now. For more on Sean don’t miss his analysis on what we can do to activate young voters here<\/a>, Demos’ findings on what Oregon’s AVR meant here<\/a>, and how California is leading the way on progressive success here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more on Jordan, make sure to follow him on a variety of social media accounts. He’s on Twitter (@jordanbeane_SD), Instagram (@jordanbeaneSD) and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Listen to the episode right here<\/a> or find it on Itunes, Google Play and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Demos Action’s Sean McElwee joins Jordan to talk about youth turnout, running younger candidates and why a lot of “conventional wisdom” should be tossed out. The Beane 2018 Podcast is back! On this edition Jordan is excited to talk to Demos Action’s Sean McElwee. A forward thinking analyst and a must follow on twitter (@seanmcelwee) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-podcasts"],"yoast_head":"\n