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On Point | Podcast

What Cambria County, Pennsylvania teaches us about voters in 2024

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Every presidential path to victory in 2024 leads through Pennsylvania. In Cambria County, voters flipped from blue to red in a few short election cycles. What clues does the county hold for 2024?

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0:00.0

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0:10.7

Stick around until the end of this episode to hear how one of those accelerators is advancing climate-centered technology.

0:17.0

Hey, it's Meghna, and I'm asking for just a minute of your time before we get to today's episode, because I've got one more example of what we mean at on point when we say never quit.

0:30.0

It's not just pushing to get answers over the course of one single episode.

0:35.0

It's sticking with issues over the long term until we get some kind of clarity on questions that matter.

0:41.0

And sometimes that means sticking with stories for years.

0:46.0

The science nerd in me likes to call it

0:49.0

longitudinal journalism.

0:50.0

Here's an example. Back in 2021, April 30th, 2021 to be exact, I interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauchy, who was then still

1:02.0

advising the White House on COVID.

1:04.5

At the time, Americans really wanted to know if we'd ever reach so-called herd immunity

1:10.3

so that the pandemic could be considered basically under control.

1:14.0

So I asked Dr. Fauchy that several times and didn't quite get a precise answer out of him.

1:20.0

So here's a moment from that show.

1:21.8

I know you've been through the ringer over the past. So here's a moment from that show.

1:22.7

I know you've been through the ringer over the past year,

1:25.9

but I hear you very strenuously trying to not

1:28.9

answer a question here.

1:31.0

So let me rephrase it.

1:32.0

Let me rephrase it. you're advising the Biden administration

1:34.2

yeah and certainly the Biden administration I know they're thinking about these

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