Election Day Informal, Unofficial, Thoroughly Unscientific Exit Poll

The Brian Lehrer Show

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🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Listeners call in to share who the voted for in local races across New York and New Jersey, then Brent Johnson, political reporter in the Statehouse bureau of The Star-Ledger and NJ.com, reacts to what he hears from New Jersey voters and talks about the races happening across the state, including every member of the state legislature and many school boards positions and Rebecca Lewis, senior state politics reporter at City & State NY, reacts to New York voters and talks about what's at stake in this year's elections.

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0:00.0	It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYC.
0:12.7	Good morning everyone, and happy election day.
0:15.7	Politico New York writes this morning
0:17.4	that there are no more off-year elections,
0:19.3	just less on year ones.
0:21.6	And as they and others point out, what happens in some of today's
0:25.0	elections could matter to the much higher stakes ones coming next year and
0:29.5	even to the New York City mayoral and New Jersey gubernatorial elections in 2025.
0:36.3	Just a program note to start out.
0:37.8	I will be back tonight at 8 o'clock for an election night politics special in the 8 o'clock hour where we will be talking
0:44.3	a lot about that the connections between this year's races and what's going to
0:49.0	happen next year for Congress for president and in 2025 mayor and governor.
0:54.0	So for our first segment today,
0:56.0	it's a Brian Laird Show tradition.
0:59.0	It's our informal, unofficial, thoroughly unscientific, election day exit poll.
1:05.9	How are you voting in any race anywhere or on any ballot question?
1:10.0	212, 433, WNYC 212 433 9692 electioneering welcome here who are you
1:19.6	voting for and what issues are top of mind for you
1:23.2	cast your ballots.
1:24.7	2.
1:27.1	WNY, and of course we say exit poll this could be if you voted absentee,
1:30.9	voted early, voted early this morning, or have yet to vote today, it's still an exit
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