{"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":170,"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":"2026-09-04T06:18:53.956013+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991"},"episode":{"title":"The Zig-Zaggy Leftward Lurch","slug":"the-zig-zaggy-leftward-lurch","published_at":"2026-07-09T16:06:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991/the-zig-zaggy-leftward-lurch","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen-1207991","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-zig-zaggy-leftward-lurch--72892600","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/3808868/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72892600/fba98fa3_793f_4bfe_af8e_f8395c4ebf66.mp3","summary":"The Democratic Socialists of America have laid their plans, are on the march, and have been making steady gains, but established orders aren't toppled in a day... and there's trouble in paradise. Henry rants his way through the fall of Graham Platner, Abdul El-Sayed's edge in his race for Michigan's Senate seat, and Melat Kiros' victory in Colorado's 1st district. Plus, we're back with an ad of the week as Wesley Bell defends his seat in Missouri in a rematch against Squad member Cori Bush.","meta_description":"The Democratic Socialists of America have laid their plans, are on the march, and have been making steady gains, but established orders aren't toppled in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2019,"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/the-zig-zaggy-leftward-lurch/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/the-zig-zaggy-leftward-lurch.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}