What's Driving People To — Or Away From — The Polls?

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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With 26 weeks to go until Election Day, voters' opinions on the major candidates are forming. We explore the different — and similar — issues motivating people across all ages to go to the polls, like abortion, the economy & Israel's war in Gaza against Hamas.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, political reporter Elena Moore, and national political correspondent Don Gonyea.

This podcast was produced by Jeongyoon Han & Kelli Wessinger. It was edited by Casey Morell. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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0:18.0	Hi, this is Andalin in Charlotte, North Carolina,
0:21.0	where I'm trying to be chill on the outside while having all the anxiety
0:24.6	on the inside as my students take their long-anticipated AP Statistics exam today.
0:30.2	This podcast was recorded at 106 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7th.
0:34.8	Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll definitely be celebrating all the
0:39.2	hard work my students have done this year. I would fail that test so hard.
0:47.0	I was trying to figure out what to say because I was so bad at statistics.
0:51.0	Also, chill on the outside, anxious on the inside is going to be on my
0:53.4	tombstone there you go hey there it's the NPR Politics podcast I'm Susan Davis I
0:57.8	cover politics I'm Elena Moore I also cover politics and I'm Don Gagnier
1:01.9	National Political Correspondent.
1:04.0	And today on the show, we're going to look at voters, both young and old and the issues motivating
1:08.0	them to vote in November, or maybe just stay home.
1:10.9	Don, before we get into it, as one of these in-between voters, I don't think it's fair to consider
1:15.4	me young, but I'm not quite old.
1:17.0	I think we need a better vocabulary here.
1:18.6	I could see, I don't want to sound agist in this podcast.
1:21.8	Youth vote sounds so energetic and fun.
1:24.8	I don't, I'm gonna say,
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