This episode of This American Life, titled 'Talk Me Into It,' examines persuasion in the midterm elections through three acts: a Detroit great-grandmother trying to talk her oldest friend out of racial prejudice and into voting for Abdul El-Sayed; a bizarre scheme by Montana Democratic in
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