We discuss last night’s election results, from different perspectives. Our guests come from different parts of the country, and have different views of the outcome, although at this time, Nov. 4, midday, no final result is available.
We discuss opinion polling, segmenting the voters into groups by the pollsters, and the effectiveness of that strategy.
Annelise Orleck is a professor of history, Jewish studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States (1995); The Soviet Jewish Americans (1999); Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (2005); and Rethinking American Women’s Activism (2014). She is also a coeditor of The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right (1997), with Alexis Jetter and Diana Taylor, and The War on Poverty, 1969-1980: A New Grassroots History (2011), with Lisa Gayle Hazirjian. Her newest book is entitled “We Are All Fast Food Workers Now”: The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages (2018).
Val Endress is a political communication professor at RI College Endress used to run focus groups and debate watch sessions with the Commission on Presidential Debates.
Stephen Pimpare is a professor at UNH Manchester and a sr. fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy. Stephen is a nationally recognized expert on poverty, homelessness, and U.S. social policy.Prior to joining UNH in 2015, where he teaches courses on American politics and public policy for the Public Service & Nonprofit Leadership Program and is a Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy, he served as a senior-level administrator for anti-hunger organizations in New York City, and taught at the City University of New York, NYU, and Columbia University.
Will Wilkinson Will is vice president for research at the Niskanen Center, overseeing the Center’s research and publications. His policy work centers on domestic social and economic policy, with a particular focus on economic growth, social insurance, criminal justice reform, and issues around the measurement of freedom, equality, and happiness. Previously, Wilkinson was a U.S. politics correspondent for The Economist.
