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Are Americans Tuning Out The 2024 Election?

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

News, Politics

4.620.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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It’s no secret that we are headed toward a presidential election that many Americans said they didn’t want. Somewhere in the range of 20 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, and if ratings are any indication, a lot of folks seem to be tuning campaign news out. So what does this portend for turnout? We’ve been in an era of high-turnout elections since 2016, but will fatigue or disdain keep people home this fall? In this installment of the 538 Politics podcast, the crew debates what kind of turnout we should expect and why it matters. They also discuss why Biden and Trump decided to go forward with two earlier-than-usual debates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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talks about margin of error anymore and it wasn't really germane to the conversation and so it was a little and the moderator had to kind of politely

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honest as Watergate, to be honest. Hello and I to the 538 politics podcast. I'm Galen Druke. It's not a secret

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that we are headed towards a presidential election that many Americans said

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they didn't want. Somewhere in the range of 20% of Americans have an

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unfavorable view of both former President Trump and President Biden. And if

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ratings are any indication, a lot of folks seem to be tuning campaign news out.

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So what does this pretend for turnout?

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We've been in an era of high turnout elections since 2016, but will fatigue or even disdain keep people home this fall?

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It's an important question for our democracy.

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It's also an important question for polling.

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Figuring out who will actually show up can be tricky,

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and so far likely voter models show a more

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