The League of Women Voters-Downeast in cooperation with WERU FM produces a monthly radio program on topics in participatory democracy. It's called the Democracy Forum.
Broadcasts may be heard from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. on the third Friday of the month at WERU Community Radio, 89.9 FM Blue Hill. Listen on the web at WERU.org. The show can also be heard in the Portland area at 11:30 a.m., the first Sunday of the following month, at WMPG Community Radio, 90.9 FM Portland, streaming at WMPG.org.
In September, 2018, the Democracy Forum won top honors from the Maine Association of Broadcasting for public affairs radio.
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November 18 — Election Reflections: What Just Happened Here?
This new episode will be pre-recorded on November 14; no listener calls will be taken. Comments and questions may be emailed to news@weru.org with Democracy Forum on the subject line.
This month, as we do each election year in November, we'll have a conversation about the election. This year, it will be less about how the parties and the candidates performed; more about how democracy performed. How did the election machinery hold up? How have our citizens embraced or rejected the legitimacy of the outcomes? Did women voters play a pivotal role in Maine or in other states? What about young voters? What does it all mean in the context of a bigger conversation about the future of western democracy?
In case you missed it live, you can listen to this show from the archive at weru.org.
Special Guests:
- Maya Eichorn, Maine Students Vote Fellow, Liberal Studies Student York County Community College
- Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director at the Center for Effective Public Management and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings.
- Steve Mistler, Chief Political Correspondent and State House Bureau Chief, Maine Public
To learn more, follow these links to related content:
- Turnout among young voters was the second highest for a midterm in past 30 years | NPR, November 2022
- LePage’s loss leaves Maine Republicans at a crossroads - Portland Press Herald, November 2022
- Midterms pose fresh test for American democracy after two years under fire | Washington Post, November 2022
- ‘We’re watching you’: incidents of voter intimidation rise as midterm elections near | The Guardian, November 2022
- Gen Z voter turnout will show just how influential influencers really are | Washington Post, November 2022
- 5 Unfounded Claims About Voting in the Midterm Elections | New York Times, November 2022
- State courts are fielding sky-high numbers of lawsuits ahead of the midterms – including challenges to voting restrictions and to how elections are run | The Conversation, October 2022
- Republicans told to hold onto mail ballots until Election Day | BDN October, 2022
- Debate dodging: The latest threat to our democracy | The Hill, LWVUS, October 2022
- The end of the debate? Republicans draw the curtain on political theater | US politics | The Guardian, September, 2022
- Can the abortion issue save Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections? | Brookings, Elaine Kamarck, August 2022
- Where the Youth Vote Can Be Decisive in the 2022 Elections | CIRCLE, August 2022