Heartland Politics with Robin Johnson
Saturday at 12:30 pm on WVIK News 90.3 FM and 90.3 HD1.
Heartland Politics with Robin Johnson is a political podcast discussing current issues we face as a country featuring interviews with senators, congressman, governors, and other political elite. Robin A. Johnson is a governmental relations, public policy and political consultant. He is an expert on government reform issues and has consulted with numerous local governments on consolidation/merger, public-private partnerships and full-cost accounting of public services. Robin has also helped candidates win elections for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, state legislature, judiciary and local government.
Latest Episodes
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Author Edward-Isaac Dovere, lead political correspondent for the Atlantic magazine, talks about his book Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump including the “twists of fate” that led to Biden’s nomination, Obama’s inadvertent role in creating what followed, the continuing battle between progressive and moderate elements of the party, and much more. -
GovernmentIowa Democratic House Leader Todd Prichard (D-Charles City) provides his take on the recently concluded legislative session and addresses school funding, election reform, the economy and more. -
GovernmentThis is Iowa House Speaker Pat Grassley’s summation of the recently concluded legislative session. In this addition of Heartland Politics, he gives an overview of the sessions highlights and accomplishments, including the budget, tax cuts, school reform, law enforcement, child care and more. -
GovernmentPaul Embery, a British trade union activist, Labour Party member, and author of “Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class,” provides a perspective from across the pond that includes lessons for American politics. -
GovernmentDemocratic pollster Brian Stryker, a partner with ALG Research, talks about the Quad Cities’ profile as a blue collar suburban area, voter behavior… -
GovernmentRobert Blizzard, a partner with Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, shares results from focus groups involving suburban voters similar to… -
EconomyAaron Renn, a leading urban analyst focused on the Midwest, talks about the region’s economic emergence from the Covid pandemic, competing Red and Blue… -
CommunityBrian Alexander, author of The Hospital: Life, Death and Dollars in a Small American Town, talks about the larger themes explored in the book and how they… -
GovernmentFind out on the next Heartland Politics podcast when Larry Bartels, co author of Democracy for Realists, explains voter behavior and the implication for… -
GovernmentKal Munis, co-author of a Niskanen Center report, Gone Country: Why Democrats Need to Play in Rural America, and How They Can Do It Again, discusses how…
