Wisconsin's vote is vital to the presidency. What are residents there looking for?
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🗓️ 3 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | At the edge of Lake Michigan in the city of Milwaukee, early in the morning before the sun comes up, |
| 0:06.2 | it is pouring and a group of runners are undeterred. |
| 0:10.0 | We love running! |
| 0:12.0 | Good morning! Good morning! Y'all good! Oh yeah! |
| 0:17.0 | Woo! Let's go! We're going to be traveling the 15 miles stretch of North Avenue and I'm making this journey with my |
| 0:24.5 | colleague my on silver of W-U-W-M the local member station here in Milwaukee. |
| 0:28.7 | How am I on? Hi Ari, good to be here. This is awesome. Tell us where we are and why we're here. |
| 0:34.0 | We are standing right near Bradford Beach on Milwaukee's Lakefront. |
| 0:38.0 | It's an actual beach. It's an actual beach. You've got this hill going up that way and you hit right upon North Avenue. |
| 0:47.0 | North Avenue, this 15 mile road that runs east to west all the way through Milwaukee and it's many different kinds of |
| 0:53.4 | neighborhoods. Yes it cuts through all the demographics. I mean here's the thing |
| 0:57.2 | about Wisconsin is it's such a crucial swing state and North Avenue basically cuts |
| 1:01.9 | through every different type of neighborhood. |
| 1:04.3 | You've got urban, suburban, rich, poor, racially segregated, racially diverse. |
| 1:10.7 | You've got all the different neighborhoods and you can find all those groups on |
| 1:13.8 | North Avenue. Consider this in a state of six million people where the |
| 1:19.6 | presidential vote can be decided by a margin of 20,000 votes. It's not just one demographic group or |
| 1:26.2 | block that can make the difference in 2024. It's all of them. |
| 1:36.1 | From NPR, I'm Ari Shapiro. |
| 1:39.7 | This message comes from the podcast, Pod Save America. |
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