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.
Tom discusses last week’s primary in North Carolina, a big night for Trump-aligned GOP candidates – like Michele Morrow, the anti-public school candidate who’s now the Republican nominee for superintendent of public instruction. Will her extreme views hurt her in the general election? Or the party as a whole? Probably not, says Tom: local and state politics are now so driven by national trends that the caliber of local candidates isn’t likely to make a difference. (But that’s not a sure thing until the election, so we’ll have to wait and see.)
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