Conversations Live: The 2024 Election


Originally aired October 24, 2024

The November 5 election is fast approaching, and Pennsylvania is a battleground state. We’ll talk with two experts about Pennsylvania’s role as a swing state, what we can and can’t learn from polls, the race for U.S. Senate, and which issues are important to voters, and we take viewer calls.

Guests

Man with beard dressed in white shirt and orange tie speaking at a podium.Berwood Yost
Berwood Yost is the Director of the Center for Opinion Research and the Director of the Floyd Institute for Public Policy at Franklin & Marshall College. He is also the Director of the Franklin & Marshall College Poll, which tracks public attitudes toward public policy issues and political campaigns. His scholarship is multidisciplinary and has appeared in journals that include the fields of criminology, human rights, political science, psychology, and public health.

Man wearing glasses in a black suit coat with a blue shirt.Dennis Plane, Ph.D.
Dennis Plane became a member of the Juniata College faculty as assistant professor of politics in 2004. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1993 from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., and went on to earn a doctoral degree in political behavior and American political institutions in 2002 from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. He has taught courses in U.S. government, state and local government, public policy, Congress and public opinion. He also can teach courses on public opinion, politics and the media, campaigns and elections, minority politics and research methods.

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