{"podcast":{"title":"Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen","slug":"beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991","podcast_index_feed_id":1207991,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5817286/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://ricochet.com/series/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9d698a06993577e393b01fec76b11092.jpg","author":"Ricochet","episode_count":161,"summary":"Each week Henry Olsen, columnist and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, will talk about the presidential and congressional races with leading political journalists and analysts, people who are out in the field and won't give you media spin. Find out who's leading the pack and who's an also-ran, with Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen. Listen to Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen , along with more than 40 other original podcasts, at Ricochet.com . No paid subscription required.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T00:17:31.405632+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991"},"episode":{"title":"First Shots at the Start of Campaign Season","slug":"first-shots-at-the-start-of-campaign-season","published_at":"2026-01-15T20:37:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991/first-shots-at-the-start-of-campaign-season","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/first-shots-at-the-start-of-campaign-season--69457660","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/3808868/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69457660/beyond_the_polls_108.mp3","summary":"With an election year upon us, it's time to brace yourselves for candidates making their way onto your television, tablet and smartphone screens with messages catered to inspire and outrage you, the coveted primary voter. This means Henry is back with the Ad of the Week, this time taking a close look at Illinois' Senate frontrunner Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Democrat looking to replace soon-to-be-retired Dick Durbin. For contrast, we head south to Texas, where Chip Roy aims to leverage his name recognition in a bid to be the Lone Star State's next Attorney General. And in light of Mary Peltola's announcement that she'll challenge Dan Sullivan for his Senate seat, Henry takes us out with a rant about the latest in the Democratic Party's gambit to retake the upper chamber.","meta_description":"With an election year upon us, it's time to brace yourselves for candidates making their way onto your television, tablet and smartphone screens with mess…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1985,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991/episodes/first-shots-at-the-start-of-campaign-season/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991/first-shots-at-the-start-of-campaign-season.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}