Politics and Podcasting: A Special Report from The Podcast Landscape

This week Tom Webster looks at how podcast consumers feel about politics in podcasting as the midterms approach, drawing on the politics chapter of *The Podcast Landscape 2026* and, for the first time, what moved since last year. Tom gets into: - How the podcast audience compares to the country by party and ideology - Whether politicians belong on podcasts, and how weekly consumers and never-consumers differ - How likely midterm voters say a podcast appearance would affect their vote - What happened to political talk as a genre heading into the election Read the full issue here.