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24 alternatives to What's the Point - BONUS: Election Podcast Pilot

Nate Silver's 538 is launching an election pod in January

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. What's the Point - BONUS: Election Podcast Pilot launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Talking With Alexa - Presidential Elections▲53

   A podcast co-hosted by Amazon's Alexa

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Elections Podcast - One Week To Iowa▲70

   538's first 2016 election podcast going into Iowa caucuses

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   FiveThirtyEight - Totally Subjective Odds▲72

   A pre-launch experiment for their new politics podcast

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   WTF with Marc Maron - Ep 613 w/ Obama▲152

   The first presidential podcast

   2015 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   538 Election Forecast▲3

   Nate Silver's realtime US Presidential Election Forecast

   2016 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   ‘The Gregory Nesmith Show’ - A Special Delivery Of UNderdogStuff™▲60

   Episode "Election Reflection" #TheBlameGame

   2016 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   With her - Ep 1: "Hi, Hillary"▲101

   The first episode of Hillary Clinton's podcast series

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Pod Save America: Teaser Episode▲62

   Political podcasts, founded by Jon Favreau

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Fresh Air - Making Sense Of Our Arcane And Convoluted ‘Primary Politics’▲65

   Somebody understands primaries...right?

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Some Noise - The Trump Minority▲60

    A podcast episode about minorities voting for Trump

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Hit Reply – Episode 0: Yet Another Startup Podcast?▲80

    How we went from 0 launches in 5 years to 9 in the last 2

    2016 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Votecastr▲108

    Unprecedented real-time US election voting data

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Serial Podcast▲177

    From This American Life, follow 1 story over a whole season

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Planet Money▲153

    A podcast covering the global economy

    2014 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Pod Save the People▲110

    DeRay’s new show on activism, social justice, and politics 🎙

    2017 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    The Pitch - 32: Nexcast▲71

    Brian Sanders pitches his upcoming podcast app to Shaan Puri

    2016 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    SMACtalk Ep: 65 Wakeup Call for New Media Marketers▲54

    Late night podcasting leads to calling out new marketers

    2016 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Ground Ego - 9: Plata O Plomo▲60

    Fun and entertaining podcast discussing current issues.

    2015 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Social Strategy Podcast - Why You Should Start A Podcast With Cliff Ravenscraft▲52

    Sound advice from the Godfather of Podcasting

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    StartUp Podcast: Almost Famous (Season 3, Episode 1)▲127

    The first episode of the new season of StartUp

    2016 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Startup Podcast - Season 3 Teaser▲81

    Season 3 launches Thursday, April 14th

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Reply All - #58 Earth Pony▲79

    Carl Diggler, the most successful election forecaster

    2016 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    The Probe #1: The Teaser▲65

    Satirical take on popular magazine-style news podcasts

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Castbacker▲88

    Kickstarter for podcasts

    2015 · its alternatives →

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