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This week, David Wasserman digs deeper into one of the defining data points of the 2024 presidential election: the diverging voting patterns of highly vs. less engaged voters.
Transcript:
Hey. This is David Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst for The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. And all year, we've been tracking the divergent political behavior of high engagement voters, the people who show up in every presidential election, but also midterms and primaries and every local race, and more peripherally engaged voters who are less ideological and don't watch a lot of cable news, don't eat, sleep, and breathe politics, but nevertheless show up to vote in presidential elections.And what we've seen all year throughout our swing state project survey is that Democrats have had a consistent four point lead among the most engaged voters who show up all the time. Kamala Harris currently leads by four points, fifty one forty seven in our, our latest installment
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