Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: What Survey Data Indicates About The Parties’ Chances This Fall

Wave Hello or Goodbye?

Matters of Policy & Politics•August 6, 2018
Area 45: What Survey Data Indicates About The Parties’ Chances This Fall
With the election less than one hundred days away, which narrative to believe—an approaching Democratic blue wave or a district-by-district slog? Hoover senior fellows and Stanford political scientists David Brady and Douglas Rivers, conductors of a tracking poll on political trends, discuss what survey data indicates about the parties’ chances this fall.
 
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David Brady

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