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 the candidate filing period over, Tom and Aaron take an early look at the state of the 2024 Democratic primary. A recent PPP survey of North Carolina voters shows Josh Stein with a big lead in the Democratic race for governor and Jeff Jackson with a big lead in the Democratic race for attorney general – but “not sure” is the runaway leader in most other statewide races, because voters don’t recognize the candidates and don’t know anything about them. (Is it better for those down-ballot races to be decided in presidential election years, when turnout is higher but voter information is low? Or is it better to decide those races in odd years, when turnout is much lower but the candidates get more attention and voters are more informed?)
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