What Early Voting Can — And Cannot — Tell Us
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This episode: voting correspondent Ashley Lopez, voting correspondent Miles Parks, and campaign correspondent Stephen Fowler.
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| 0:00.0 | I cover new voters for NPR. |
| 0:03.4 | That means people who've never voted before, especially young people. |
| 0:07.6 | Their numbers and power are growing. |
| 0:10.1 | What issues do they care about? |
| 0:11.6 | How do they feel? What they say can tell us where this election is headed. My job is to bring their |
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| 0:23.6 | Hi, this is Isabel from Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm about to go on stage to perform in a live shadow cast of the Rocky Horror Picture |
| 0:30.6 | show. This podcast was recorded at 1047 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, October 29th, |
| 0:38.0 | 2024. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I will have survived and Berger's Castle. Have a lovely day. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, love that. It's been a long time. |
| 0:50.5 | We need more theater. More theater time stamps. Bring them on. time |
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| 0:56.2 | their interactive like like Rocky whore you get to throw things at the screen it's |
| 0:58.9 | like very fun throw popcorn other things like that hey there it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover voting. I'm Miles Parks. I also cover voting. And I'm Stephen Fowler. I cover the campaign. |
| 1:11.0 | And today on the show we're going to talk about voting. |
| 1:14.6 | In-person voting started throughout much of the country last week, which means we can actually |
| 1:18.8 | start seeing some voting trends start to form. |
| 1:21.6 | We are of course expecting this year to be different than four years ago. |
| 1:25.4 | I don't have to remind everyone that 2020 was a super weird year. This year things are very different |
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