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Your Election Day Sedative, Ma’am

The girlies bring you a silly Election Day episode to distract you from the horrors and feelings of impending doom. They discuss the craziest smear campaigns of elections past, why “our candidate is a great guy to have a beer with” has always been a winning message, and some truly wild political memorabilia from America’s history. Digressions include some wonderful, apolitical headlines from the esteemed Daily Mail and how we’re planning to spend the most stressful day of the last four years. 

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance from Kylie Finnigan. 

To support the podcast on Patreon and access 50+ bonus episodes, mediasodes, zoom hangouts and more, visit patreon.com/binchtopia and become a patron today.

SOURCES

The Role of Music in the 1840 Campaign of William Henry Harrison

William Harrison: Campaigns and Elections

The Whig Campaign of 1840: The Editorial Policy of George D. Prentice

The Campaign of 1840: William Henry Harrison and Tyler, Too

The New Political History and the Election of 1840 

Political Buttons and the Material Culture of American Politics, 1828-1976 

Whig Women, Politics, and Culture in the Campaign of 1840: Three Perspectives from Massachusetts 

Getting the Message Out: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Collection of Allen A. Frey

Quirky Tools of Past Presidential Campaigns Find a New Audience 

Political Fashion Statements From the 1952 Presidential Campaign 

Women Unite for Ike! 

John Quincy Adams: Campaigns and Elections 

A Brief History of Presidential Campaign Merch 

Cash for kitsch: Let’s talk about campaign merchandise

The Forgotten Joy of 1960 Presidential Campaign Jingles

7 Campaign Gimmicks Used by Presidential Candidates   

Sewing Box, Andrew Jackson, 1828 

6 Presidential Campaign Slogans That Fell Flat 

These Artifacts Show the Best—And Worst—of American Election Ephemera 

Win or Lose: Memorable Presidential Slogans 

Incredible Political Fashion Statements From Past Elections

The Forgotten Joy of 1960 Presidential Campaign Jingles

Why did early presidents not campaign? It’s all modern presidents seem to do  

The Origins of Modern Campaigning 

Edna Mae Phelps Political Collection 

Miniature Log Cabin 

What Ten Artifacts from the Smithsonian Collections Can Tell Us About the Crazy History of American Politics 

The Long Tradition of the Smear Campaign 

“Pulp Fashion”: Paper Dresses of the 1960s

Keep the Ball Rolling

The IKE Dress: Did it Really Deliver its Promise?

William Harrison: Life Before the Presidency 

Vote for Me: West Virginia Political Memorabilia 

Al Smith: Provocative Slogan Button.... 

Jeb Bush Wants to Sell You a $75 Guacamole Bowl 

Your Election Day Sedative, Ma’am Your Election Day Sedative, Ma’am

Comments

As an ex-MUN(er) SOO much went down

Mia Levine

we NEEEEEEED the full pot of tea on ari

em

HEYYYY

maddie haines

I have a George W Bush key ring. I thought he was hot before I was old enough to realise he was a terrible man.

Cara Walkam

never forget the howard dean scream

Alana Wegner

Here’s a pitch for a segment if Eliza decides to start smoking pot again: “Dream Blunt Rotation”, where they get high with a religious or spiritual leader and discuss a relevant topic.

Allie

WE NEED U ON THE POD!!

avvsies

Off the back of this, in Australia we are also the one of the few countries to have mandatory voting and I would love to see this discussed because I think it can be a blessing and a curse

Vanja

JULIA YOUR TWEET GOT ON DAILY MAIL TIK TOK

Ysabella Vargas

I have no words… good for you for getting the hell out of there!! I am seriously so so sorry!!! My heart goes out to everyone in these environments

Victoria

Full Miss Ariana Patreon episode pleasereeeeee

Madelyn Wood

Hannah from Fairport we neeeeeeed to link up

Caitlin Whalen

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB7xrr5MwlM/?igsh=MTUyc2VqajBwcXN6OA== Blue dots in red states 💙

Marsss

Does anyone want to talk and rant together for a bit? I need to talk to someone soooo bad rn , no one cares about the election where I am and I need to talk to a fellow liberal leaning girlie about it....

T. Chau

OMFG! How did I miss the student government ask? Can I put in a late mailbox moment? 🤣

Diana Sarah

went into the office wednesday morning … made it 30 minutes before the group of men in the row of desks next to me were gleefully discussing “whores losing rights” & then this older woman bringing in donuts to celebrate😞 said i thought i had food poisoning and went home

Meredith Floyd

HBD to you too 🥲🥲

Mary

thank u queen omg

Mary

You’re awesome!! Can you maybe link the article or whatever platform it comes out on?!

Victoria

Hope you survived diva! Wish I could say hope you had a good day but i can’t even say that 😍

Victoria

So sorry for all these Scorpio divas… you deserve the world…

Victoria

Hiii it’s my SD binchie! Hey girl

Victoria

I love this community so much right now

Victoria

very wonderful post election day sedative. thanks for the giggles they were much needed ❤️

nora gore

WE LOVE CHLOE SWARBRICK I bought the woke lesbo brat shirt for my bestie lol

Poppy

I can’t believe this is happening. I had so much hope for yesterday. I feel absolutely hopeless now. And I’m watching all of the incel freak losers dance on my grave. It’s disgusting. Cannot believe what is about to come out of this.

lefthandedscorpio

Missing you too 🥰😽 wish I would’ve answered this yesterday because my reaction would’ve been way different lol! Getting by is my answer 😅

Hannah Mitchell

listening post election and glad i waited lol 🥲

Ruby Bissett

We need a post election sedative...

Marthe Annaert

Also on merch - someone vandalised her office with the words ‘woke lesbo’ and she got it printed into tshirts

Bianca Cross

Chloe Swarbrick (the ok boomer girl) still remains a queen and my last thread of hope in world politics

Bianca Cross

So sorry to all the Americans, we live in a scary world and I hope you all stay safe and positive!

Lily

sending love to everyone today <3 you’re not alone

Gabby Brunner

yes! community resilience is how we show up for each other

Erica Richardson

ewwwww

Erica Richardson

my husband is a descendent of William henry harrison and his historically short presidency is brought up every family gathering. what a king. hope all of the binchie listening are okay today

Indie

Not ok 2day

Lauren

where is the post-election sedative 😭

sarah

listened to this last night and giggled…. listened again this morning and sobbed

Kate Kavelman

your voices are truly the only reason i got off the bathroom floor today

Erin

Just trying to share my scientific findings with you all!

Emily

It’s a bad day to work in a small rural conservative town

Melanie Reagan

thank u for the bojack defending the yearly onslaught of internet talking heads saying that adult cartoons have some sort of sick crossover w child p*rn reeks HAVOC on my OCD mind

Liz D'Andrea

shoutout ubc!!!

kaia

thank u for the bojack defending the yearly onslaught of internet talking heads saying that adult cartoons have some sort of sick crossover w child p*rn reeks HAVOC on my OCD mind

Liz D'Andrea

I'm so sorry everyone

Erin

How uncouth

Erin

saw the way it was headed and came straight for my sedative

skybright

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Anne Margaret

Re: student government stories Shoutout to my alma mater UBC Vancouver for electing a literal RAT for student body president!! Nicknamed “Remy” by UBC students for reasons that will immediately become apparent, the rat president was first seen in 2022 in a dorm dining hall GETTING PICKED UP VIA TONGS. In 2023, “Remy the Rat” ran for president of Canada’s largest student union and WON on a pretty progressive platform. Joke candidates have won before, but the student who ran as Remy seemed pretty serious about their platform and voter turnout was over 22% - which is a lot for a student election. Would love to hear everyone's favourite joke candidates - imo Deez Nuts is an all-timer

Anne Margaret

we NEED to open the discussion ab Ariana Grand

Mic

My model UN group did in fact get fucked up at the conferences

Ash M

RIP to the right to be forgotten 💔

Bella

wait speaking of tweets i need yalls take on the Navy SEAL who claimed he killed Bin Laden telling young men on twitter that they would be his concubines https://x.com/mchooyah/status/1853247567456325956?s=46&t=YXtctjC3GvRsIqDbacSn-Q

Taylor McElwain

That is sooooo cool we got a binchie priest !!!!!!!

Poppy

There’s no video for this episode as Eliza was on tour and the girls recorded remotely!

Binch Topia

Omg yeah

Shaelan Donovan

My college mock trial team dramatically ousted its leadership board two years in a row

Emily

haven’t even started the episode yet

binchl0ver

needed this 🙏🏻

binchl0ver

there were 2 impeachments, a voter fraud scandal, and a LAWSUIT in my university’s student senate this past year 😭😭 too much lore to explain but people go CRAZY for low stakes shit

Hiley

Yall Nixon went to my undergrad (Whittier College) and there’s a Richard Nixon Young Republicans club on campus

Madison Greer

My friend has a clinical phobia of snakes (can’t even look at a photo of one) because when she was young she was in her friends pool and the friend let her pet snake loose into the pool and it chased her in the water and continued chasing her for hundreds of meters on grass. I giggle every time I picture this in my brain. & also I will be a bojack defender until the day I die if you don’t like it then you simply don’t understand the nuance of it (I have a Diane tattoo from the episode ‘Good Damage’.)

Grace Stibr

Episode idea: dive into different voting systems like proportional representation (used in Europe), ranked-choice (Australia), and first-past-the-post (US/UK) with some history behind each!

Chris Beale

Women can be priests in the Anglican/Episcopal church! I am one!

Allie

thank you on behalf of all Pennsylvania binchies (we are tired of being the center of attention)

oh.shit.mybad

thank u queens

bug

How can I watch the video version sorry I can’t find

Carlyn Cunningham

you’ve got this!! sending you good vibes and strength to tune out the office bros 🩵🩵🩵

Lily Ana Verna

checking in to say that model un was the HORNIEST

Amanda R

HAHAHAHA I came here to say this too

Lily Ana Verna

listened to this while filling out my ballot 🫡

maddie haines

Omggg miss you!! How are you!!

Sofia Ilic

Can confirm that all Model UN babes are sexy, but the debauchery is real. I spent every conference getting hammered and partying😭

Moera Kalafatides Hunter

No the nightly erection thing is actually very true. Literally every time I wake up in the middle of the night, my husband has a boner for no reason

Emily

Feel this queen HBD

Ru

in highschool us history we got assigned presidents we had to pretend to be and debate each other and i got assigned nixon and was so committed to winning the debate that i genuinely became a nixon stan cause i chose to only learn the positive things. anyway me and my bestie who was reagan look back on that… i even wore a mask of nixons face

S Johnson

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Sabrina Benchaabane

“You think she needs the clowning of the world as well?”

Ru

snake hatred is unnecessary…… very docile and harmless species and NO venomous snakes in the US would kill a healthy person if they seek medical care !!! eliza i guarantee the snake you saw was a garter snake or something…………. snake fear is not genetic it’s learned!!!!!! we don’t need to be fearing them at all times !!!!

Sophie Foster Trask

we deserve better!!! and happy early bday 😊 praying that the vibes aren’t atrocious 🙏🏻

Mary

my bdays on the 14th, and i’m a HUGE birthday girly, but i can’t even plan anything with the chance of trump winning looming over me😞

Aspyn Martin

Hey queeeeen🥰

Hannah Mitchell

i just had to get my blood drawn, thank u for the auditory support queens

Alissa

i just wanna be part of your 🐬 CYNTHONY 🐬

grace

If you’re reading this I hope you remember that your joy is in the way you choose to think and no one has the power to take that from you. Not trump, not NO ONE. It is not your responsibility to hold a torch for every single aggrieved person on the planet. I realized that my choice to be miserable was draining my energy away from being able to show up for my community. I’m having less energy for my friends who bring the doom and gloom but work in the private sector instead of a nonprofit, who don’t volunteer, who don’t bring food to their elderly neighbors and don’t show up for their community. Choose your energy wisely yall and let that energy power you in the most productive way you can much love to yall. 🩷💙

avvsies

Still thinking about “girl that was me in my garments”

Liv Tambrini

I just wanna be part of your Synthanyyyy

Julia

I was grabbing my clonopin as Julia said she’d need one lmao

Grace Linder

I needed this more than you guys could’ve ever known

Lucy Johanneman

I found a book at the library yesterday by Maeve Binchy and I checked it out because I, too, am a fellow binchy

Sofia Ilic

any scorpios in the chat?? my 21st bday was two days after the 2016 election (I’m old) and I really cannot take another potential T***p presidency cursing my birthday 😭😭

Mary

Real ones know about Harrison from parks and rec!

Julia

neeeeed this as a girlina in texas that works in a very male dominated VERY conservative office and can’t work from home today🫠 airpods will be superglued to my ears for my full shift today

Meredith Floyd

gorginas as an arizona binchie who has interacted w many a rattlesnake they can kill a small dog (or child…) w a single bite if they dont get immediate medical care… praying for pepper in these trying times she is a REAL hero

halle

it’s kinda heartbreaking to me that william henry harrison organized the most goated and unprecedented presidential platform then died after being president for a MONTH

Ella Fuller

Listening to this in line to vote rn

meegan m

Binchies!! I was interviewed by USA Today on Sunday about voting blue in a red state 😚💙

Marsss

fear of snakes can def be tied to the religious condemnation of snakes as the physical representation of the devil in genesis

Jaelyn Wratchford

i live in pittsburgh pennsylvania and just voted.. it’s been swing state hell for weeks… THANK U FOR THE DISTRACTION

isbly

needed this bad

Gabrielle Greco

Thank god

Avery Vilandrie

this is all to say obviously that i think all us presidents are war criminals and they’re all running for the position of supreme fascist of the world, but i do think this ^^ dynamic is present and also IM JOKING IM JOKING

Audrey Zelinka

NEEDED THISSSS

Luisa Giancristofaro

this totally supports my friends theory that only stupid chads win american presidential elections. smart chads (bernie, fidel, kerry, gore) come off as not “common man” enough, and although they would make excellent leaders, they don’t have that beer drinking appeal. smart virgins (romney, AOC, ben shapiro types) are way too sterile and calculated and the people can tell it’s all an act, or that these people have no warmth and charm. stupid virgins (desantis, mccain) have no appeal at all. the people don’t trust their leadership and they come across as bumbling idiots AND they have absolutely no swagger or sex appeal. But the stupid chad is the ultimate shining example of a US president (Regan, bush jr, trump, biden, clinton, JFK). doesn’t really matter what their policies are, but they have so much unabashed cowboy confidence and anything they say goes. They are like celebrities in their respective supporter groups (and sometimes actual celebrities, re; Reagan and trump). the people elect them because they are DUDES. you can have a beer with them, they’re kinda wacky and silly, or sometimes sexy, and their favorability has virtually nothing to do with their actual stances or policies.

Audrey Zelinka

I’m getting lasik surgery today which means I’m getting a free Xanax 😝 but trust and believe I will be listening to this later when im supposed to keep my eyes closed

abby burnett

Thank goodness

tesscwright

🙏🙏

sexybaby666

And for this I am most grateful

Christina Helowicz

needed this one

Allena Wright

i just voted :)

MK

yes ladies

jo 🍭

Oh thank GOD

Madison Haley

I will be listening to this in my 3hr line today thank you

Adelaide Rava

foaming at the mouth

Sarah Peake

needed

Madeline Finley

God bless you

Corinne Thomas

this ep is going to hit after an 11 hour day of practicum and class while i drink an entire bottle of wine

Marina Wallman

saw this notification and literally said thank god

olivia canterbery

CLAIMING IT, TY ! I am Aussie in Europe but much like many of us pure shitting bricks for the foreseeable… thanks for this one, legends.

Kate Bailey

I love y’all thank YOU

Rachel Edwards

I needed this

josh caine-welch

Needed this desperately

Katie Arendt

Julia how much r u smoking today 😃

Em Guen

Omg yes

blaine

god’s work!!!!

theodora

Thank you for this. It means a lot.

Pagrocrag

I could cry thank u binchqueens

Em Guen

oh thank god

Maeve

THANK YOUUU

Hannah Carter

thank you angels

Sarah Billings

NEEDED this today

Lucy L

needed this thanks ladies

Campbell Coker

Thank you queens

Allie Safonov

have never hit play faster in my life

Tori D

Thank god

Eden Wright

Wowowowow AND with the morning deliveryyyy 😘 yall have a blessed day🤩

jaleesa flores

This just made my day

maggiemoo


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