We are back with nick clark. Clark, associate professor at susquehanna university. What do polls say right now in this snapshot of time about where the race stands . Average thenes that different polls put Vice President biden ahead between roughly 4 and 6 . Frank then and marshall has a new poll this morning i think with some of the upper end of that trajectory. There are some single polls that give him more of an advantage. It is looking like biden as an advantage between 4 and 6 . Host is it enough to get out of the margin of error . Guest i believe so. On the high side the margin is around five point. Even if the Vice President were to come down a percentage point, that would be enough to do it. That is a high margin though. Most cases will be between 3 and five point. We will not know on Election Night because they will be ballots being counted for the days afterwards. It does look at the polls. If they are accurate, the Vice President will pull this off. Host 20 electoral votes a
In most cases it will be between three and five points. To know ongoing Election Night because there will still be ballots being counted for the days afterward. Host 20 electoral votes at stake. What role do you think the state will play in this election . Close, ifelection is the polls are largely wrong right now and none of the other florida or carolina or georgia we may not know the outcome in pennsylvania on Election Night. We will know for sure if it is closed. If it is closed it will likely come down to pennsylvania. Host what about those who dont routinely vote. What what do we know about whether or not the candidates are getting them to show up this time around. We expect turn out to be higher. Pennsylvania typically has a higher turnout rate and the rest of the country. President trump to mobilize new people to the polls last time and he may do so again this election. We are also getting some evidence that there are people voting for the first time for Vice President biden bec
There are some single polls that give him more of an advantage. It is looking like biden as an advantage between 4 and 6 . Host is it enough to get out of the margin of error . Guest i believe so. On the high side the margin is around five point. Even if the Vice President were to come down a percentage point, that would be enough to do it. That is a high margin though. Most cases will be between 3 and five point. We will not know on Election Night because they will be ballots being counted for the days afterwards. It does look at the polls. If they are accurate, the Vice President will pull this off. Host 20 electoral votes at state. What role with the state play in this election . Guest if it is close, if the polls are largely wrong and none of the other states and play such as florida or North Carolina or georgia or arizona are competitive, pennsylvania will decide it. We may not know the outcome on Election Night. We will know if it is close or if it is more of a landslide for the
Coming up in one hour, pittsburgh postgazette julian rao on pennsylvania as a battleground state. More on pennsylvania with susquehanna universitys Nicholas Clark. Host good morning. Well begin this morning with testimony on capitol hill yesterday we from yesterday from the ceos of google, facebook, and twitter. They were asked to talk about their social media influence. We want to know from you this morning, do you think these companies have too much power . Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can also text us with your first name, city and state, at 202 7488003, or post your ,omments on twitter, cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. This headline about yesterdays ted cruz slams twitter political restrictions. Google, facebook, also face liability. Heres what the senator all what the senator had to say yesterday, questioning jack dorsey, alleging that twitter is biased against conservatives. [video clip] ondid twitter block stories copies of the pr
We can go ahead and zoom in. You can see some snow around afternoon den along i83 if your travels are going to take you on this roadway be careful out there. Its very slick. We can see it around arbutus this morning. Wood lawn. Also lynn acres getting in on the light snow this morning as well. We slide a little further to the south and we can see it around crownsville this morning. And also the ridges and bladen. Also walden. So again, slick roadways if we can see the icing out there and we have a little bit of patchy fog out there as well. We have it all and then we talk about the cold temperatures as we look at abc2s most accurate temperatures right now. Sykesville 14. More of the same in catonsville. West friendship coming in at 11. And as you plan your day, well, the flurries will start to taper off as we go into your morning rush hour ending it and by lunchtime windy. Temperature coming in at 25 but feeling like we are in the teens once again. Charlie . Lynette thank you. You woke