The Tipping Point State: Public Opinion and Political Preferences in Battleground Pennsylvania

Course | Registration opens 8/12/2024 8:00 AM EDT

Penn State York, 1031 Edgecomb Avenue York, PA 17403-3398 United States

Main Classroom Bldg, Conference Center, 31 B and C

Members and nonmembers

10/1/2024 (one day)

1:00 PM-2:30 PM EDT on Tue

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$20.00

$8.00

Yost will discuss how the rearranging of ideological and partisan identities within key demographic subgroups and geographic regions in Pennsylvania has created increased polarization and intense political competition. He will show how these changes have created the conditions for competitive statewide races, particularly in races for national offices, while those changes have moved the state from Republican-leaning to Democratic-leaning. In this context, Yost will discuss how voters are thinking and how those beliefs may shape the outcomes of the 2024 races in the state.

Participants could familiarize themselves with recent polling and writings at fandmpoll.org and the ambitious could read my book from Temple University Press, Are All Politics Nationalized? Evidence from the 2020 Pennsylvania Campaigns. More info can be found at berwoodyost.com and fandmpoll.org

Berwood Yost is the Director of the Center for Opinion Research and the Floyd Institute for Public Policy at Franklin & Marshall College. He is also the Director of the Franklin & Marshall College Poll, which tracks public attitudes toward public policy issues and political campaigns. His scholarship is multidisciplinary and has appeared in journals that include the fields of criminology, human rights, political science, psychology, and public health. More info can be found at www.berwoodyost.com and www.fandmpoll.org.