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.
With Election Day looming, Tom and Aaron preview some of the highest-profile contests on the national level. In Ohio, abortion-rights advocates are hoping for a big win on a ballot initiative, while Republicans in Virginia are hoping a more moderate anti-abortion stance will mitigate some of the negative fallout from last year’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Elsewhere, there are surprisingly tight gubernatorial races in two GOP-dominated states: Kentucky, where the incumbent governor is a popular Democrat, and Mississippi, where the incumbent is an unpopular Republican. And locally, early voting turnout was very high for an odd-year local election – but the numbers don’t tell us too much about what to expect on Tuesday night.
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