Who are the undecided voters and what are they thinking
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🗓️ 19 September 2024
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| 0:00.0 | With the race for the White House as close as ever, the election could come down to a small number of undecided voters. |
| 0:07.0 | But in a hyper-partisan political climate, who are those people that are still unsure. |
| 0:13.0 | NPR's Dominico Montanaro spoke to a handful of undecided voters who have responded to our |
| 0:17.8 | regular PBS news and PR Maris Poll. |
| 0:21.0 | He's here to walk us through what they're thinking good to see you. |
| 0:23.2 | Good to see you too. |
| 0:23.8 | So when we talk about undecided, how many people are we? |
| 0:27.0 | How big is this block? |
| 0:28.6 | And how are they still undecided? |
| 0:30.3 | It is a tiny slice of people, right? I're talking in recent years anywhere from 6% who are genuinely |
| 0:36.8 | Persuatable to maybe the low teens right and really in this election given how people know so much about Donald Trump in |
| 0:44.5 | particular and when President Biden was running it was a really really small |
| 0:49.0 | number of people I mean in our poll it was like 3% of people who were undecided. |
| 0:53.6 | And then when Harris got in, we saw a dip in that |
| 0:56.4 | and there were more people who moved to be undecided. |
| 0:58.8 | But still, it was only about 9% of people. |
| 1:01.1 | But immediately after that, as soon as they started to see a little bit more about |
| 1:04.6 | Kamala Harris people started to make up their minds. |
| 1:07.3 | So in these big election events post debate for example where are they now and |
| 1:11.7 | what should we take away from the shifts you're laying out? |
| 1:14.0 | Well, so in the NPR PBS News, Maris Poll, we had 46 people over the last several months who said that they were undecided. |
| 1:21.0 | And what I did was reach out to 10 of them and we had five men, five |
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