go to the polls we are pleased tuesday. to welcome john rogers. he is the director of the national republican congressional committee, the nrcc. he has been with the organization since 2011. his job, working with the chairman, is getting republicans returned to the house of representatives. thank you for being with us. mike is back from the washington post. and alexa rights for politics for axios. first.ou are mike: thank you for joining us. i want to ask you a simple question. what group of voters do you think has the biggest potential to impact control of the house tuesday, and what has your group been doing in the last week to reach those people and convince them to vote for republicans? john: thanks for having me. i have to give two groups one is where people swing would be independents. specifically married, college-educated women is where we are most focused. figuring out what messaging works for them and what is most effective. the other is republicans. it is the m
so close to the election. i just want to ask you a very simple question. what group of voters do you think has the biggest potential control of the house on tuesday, and what has your group and doing in the last week to reach those people and commits them to vote for republicans? john: sure. thanks her having me come i am really excited to be on the show. i have to give two groups one is where people swing would be independents. specifically married, college-educated women is where we are most focused. figuring out what messaging works for them and what is most effective. the other is republicans. it is the midterm, not the same turnout as a presidential would. we have been aggressively turning out the vote. we launched a nationwide radio spot that was almost $700,000. talking to republicans, reminding them the election is coming. mike: today, new economic numbers are positive. but what the president is talking about is immigration, the caravan, birthright citizenship. talk
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he has been with the organization since 2011. his job, working with the chairman of ohio, getting republicans returns to the house of representatives. thank you for being with us. he writes about politics for ask yields. thank you for joining us. i want to ask you a simple question. what group of voters has the biggest potential to impact the house? what has your group been doing to convince them to vote for republicans? i have to give two groups where people swing would be independents. that is what we have been focused on. figuring out what messaging works for them and what is most effective. the other is republicans. it is the midterm, not the same turnout as a presidential would. we have been aggressive turning out the vote. we launched a nationwide radio spot that was almost $700,000. talking to republicans, reminding them the election is coming. today, new economic numbers are positive. but the president is talking about immigration, the caravan, birthright citi
election day getting closer, three weeks away and were joined by jan leighley professor of public affairs government. here to talk about the segment why people choose not to vote. in general, with the common thought is that midterm elections are lower turnout but why do people what are the reasons they get for not voting? a lot of times their port they don t have information about the election and they don t care or they don t want to have anything to do with politics. it is not worth the time or effort to make it to the polls on election day. look at the midterm turnouts as lower than the presidential election, has that always been the case? historically, have turnout levels in the united states below? in terms of the terms, yes. there s about a 20 percentage point difference lower turnout in the terms compared to presidential elections so this is common. there is far less information and campaign excitement and mobilization activities in the midterms. historically