The Election Tricycle

The Election Will Be Televised: our pop culture picks for your election fever!

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Episode notes

Everyone is talking about who will the US election. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? That's the question on everyone's lips, which is why we, at The Political Cycle, decided to take our lips out of the equation for a week and offer something a little different. Here are our pop cultural picks – films, TV shows, even a song or two – to get you election ready and distract you from the nightmare possibilities that the Presidential race is throwing up.


Here are the picks from this episode:


Emily's picks

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Death of Stalin

Veep

In the Loop

"All You Fascists Bound to Lose" by Woody Guthrie


Tom's picks

"Things Can Only Get Better" by D:Ream

The Thick of It

Spitting Image


Rohan's picks

Newton

Rang De Basanti 

Iruvar


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