Meet the Voters Who Will Decide the Election | WSJ State of the Stat

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Published 2024-04-30
Going into the 2024 presidential election, nearly a third of voters aren't sold on President Biden or Donald Trump. So-called “persuadable" voters say they are undecided or might consider voting for a third-party candidate in November. Traditionally, a Democrat has to be up by four or five points in national polling to have the strength to win in the electoral college. So how will these voters impact the election?

WSJ breaks down what we know about the "persuadables," and why winning them over could be more essential to President Biden than Donald Trump.

Chapters:
0:00 “Persuadable voters”
0:43 Voter breakdown
2:29 Biden’s coalition
4:02 What this means for November

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All Comments (21)
  • @nicholas11121
    I want to meet the people that can't decide between trump and biden. What information are they waiting for?
  • @davidsamuelson2089
    So you maintain an electoral college on the premise that you don’t want the winner to be the one with the most votes yet the elections all fall down to maybe 5 states?
  • @bhaskarvishwajeet226
    They just securitised fence-sitters into an asset class for betting enthusiasts 😂
  • @user-sm2xn2wf3x
    I like how what the interviewed person is saying barely correlates with the graphs shown in the video. I mean, come on, he says persuadables dont care about immigration and care a lot about the economy ,even though immigration is the top issue for like 20% of the people in that group, and the economy is barely 5 percentage points higher.
  • @jaredspencer3304
    Any candidate who promised to build 10 million homes would win every single vote from young people.
  • @juiceman_3
    It’s going to be Biden, Trump, or the couch
  • @doneaton6704
    I think the biggest problem American voters have is not educating themselves. When we have homelessness caused by fifty years of wage suppression and people who never got help after 2008 collapse together with excessively low taxes on the wealthy and corporations it's never been clearer which party to vote for.
  • @raenico5285
    How is it so casual to Americans that Democrats usually need more votes to win the electoral college?
  • @texasfight210
    "Why cant I have somebody else" people say as primary elections have some of the lowest turnouts every election cycle.
  • @0xCAFEF00D
    1:30 I don't know how these graphs are constructed but I'd assume the interests are normalized. So we'd see persuadables much more interested in their core issues than the general public. Not just equal. What issues do they beat the general public on then?
  • @zoso73
    It comes down to this: of the two, who is the least worst candidate?
  • @MichaelEspey-hp1jt
    Because people are tired of the same type of politicians that do the same things and not deliver what they promised because they could possibly be sociopaths that do not care about what other people feel. That is my thought on the matter. If you wish to disagree, then kindly do so in a respectful manner.
  • @Theabok853
    Polls are not good barometer, not even close, what if a poll taker decide to enter their opposite views as opposed what their intend to vote for?