97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.
Every other Monday, Aaron is joined at 8:30 a.m. by Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling, for a longstanding regular segment called “What We’re Thinking,” looking at recent survey numbers and discussing what they tell us about American public opinion – election-related and otherwise.
This week, Tom discusses the state of the presidential race now that Kamala Harris is in as the Democratic nominee. Progressive voters have been exuberant over polls showing Harris with a big lead, but Tom says those polls are outliers – and the reality is that the race is still a toss-up, though Harris is in a better position than Joe Biden was a few weeks ago. (Other developments: “undecided” voters had been mostly left-leaning voters in past polls, but now the undecideds are more evenly split; and Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s presence on the ballot is now measurably helping Democrats, not Republicans.)
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