F707Z Fall 2024 Pundits, Polls & Politics! The ’24 Election!

F707Z  Pundits, Polls & Politics! The ’24 Election!
Monday, 2:15—3:40, Oct. 14
One session
Instructor: Doug Stowell
The '24 Election is here! How can we make an informed choice? Let's 1) Review POTUS “Approval” history 1945-2020), 2) Explore how better voter polls are done, 3) Discuss major ’24 election issues and 4) Identify party positions. We’ll review the current polls and do some in-class survey exercises such as a typical Corporate Assessment Model (CAM) on the choice for POTUS. CAM is a "tool" to rank the issues AND the candidates. We will wrap up by doing a class electoral vote prediction, state-by-state. Just 1 in 20 voters actually decide an election. Let’s be a better prepared voter and be part of the “1”! A cell phone and some familiarity with Q/R codes are helpful, but not required. This is a non-partisan discussion.
Doug Stowell is a consumer and political polling veteran in both U.S. and EU Markets. His career includes being the market research director for the Xerox Corp., U.S. clients director for the U.K. polling firm NOP, Ltd. in London, and senior polling executive for Wirthlin Worldwide in Washington, D.C. He launched Market Resource Associates in 2008 and conducts opinion polls on U.S. and global issues today. He is a member of OLLI at Furman University in Greenville, SC and conducts Zoom programs for more than 80 groups nationally. This is his fourth quadrennial election program.