What About the People Who Don’t Vote?

The Run-Up

The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The people who don’t vote are often left out of the political conversation. Campaigns don’t spend much money on them, and the media doesn’t devote much coverage to them. But to understand a presidential contest like the 2024 race — one that threatens to be extremely close — we have to understand not just the people who show up to vote, but also those who sit out elections. This week, we talk to several people who skipped the last Trump-Biden matchup in 2020 and ask how they’re thinking about 2024. We also speak to Anthony Williams, who directed a project at the Knight Foundation that surveyed 12,000 nonvoters ahead of the 2020 election. We ask: How do you define this group of people? And what, if anything, will change their minds when it comes to voting?

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0:00.0	I'm a
0:05.0	Hi, my name's Sted Herndon. I'm a reporter with the New York Times and I host the
0:09.2	politics podcast The Run Up. I was looking for Kevin Good.
0:12.3	So thank you for picking up. I was looking for Kevin Good. Sure. Thank you for picking up.
0:15.0	I'm calling because we are talking to people who previously participated in times polling to ask them
0:20.0	about how they're feeling about this year, about the presidential election,
0:22.0	and maybe answer a couple questions that we could use possibly on our
0:25.7	podcast. Do you think you have maybe five ten minutes for us to chat to that?
0:29.6	All right for me let me make what this is in a crazy machine.
0:34.0	It's not.
0:35.2	This is a real reporter with the real New York Times
0:37.9	who would love to get your thoughts
0:40.1	about the presidential election.
0:41.7	I got you, but you got to say this for me.
0:44.4	You ready?
0:46.1	You go first?
0:48.1	Okay, say Pickles, point in people's
0:55.0	people's point, pickles point specifically at people.
0:59.0	Okay.
1:00.0	I respect it because there's a lot of these AI machines are getting a little fancy these
1:07.1	I get why you got to got to make sure.
1:10.7	Can you tell me a little bit about yourself a part of the country you're in,
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