Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum and Political Science & Legal Studies Department Present:
28 Weeks: Counting Down to November 2024
As the US heads towards November 2024 and a presidential election is likely to be held between two historically unpopular candidates (again), it will be issues that drive many voters to the polls. Join nationally renowned pollster David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, for a discussion centered on the Center’s most recent national polling with USA TODAY, covering crucial issues such as reproductive rights, border security, foreign policy, and the Trump trials. The evening’s moderator is Stephanie Leydon, executive producer of digital video, GBH News.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
7:00 p.m. Live via Zoom
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This event is free and open to the public.
David Paleologos Bio
David Paleologos is the Director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center (SUPRC), where he has worked since 2002 conducting polling at the local, state, and national levels. SUPRC results have been reported by hundreds of major news organizations for their high degree of accuracy. As of winter 2024, Paleologos and SUPRC are partnered with The Boston Globe (regional polling) and USA TODAY (national polling). Other survey partners include The Los Angeles Times; The Cincinnati Enquirer; The York Daily Record; The Reno Gazette Journal; The Arizona Republic; The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; The Detroit Free Press; The Louisville Courier Journal; and NBC10 Boston-Telemundo-NECN.
Paleologos is the author of a proprietary bellwether model that has an 89% record of accuracy in predicting outcomes through the November 2022 midterm elections. In the 2022 Midterms, SUPRC went 7 for 7 in polling US Senate races in the final three weeks of the election season, correctly predicting outcomes in Nevada, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire. Through 2022, SUPRC was ranked first in the nation by both fivethirtyeight.com (in the November 2022 midterms) and RealClearPolitics.com (all elections from 2014-2022.
Stephanie Leydon Bio
Stephanie Leydon is the executive producer of digital video at GBH News She produced the Newsroom’s COVID and Classroom series which offered an intimate look at the lives of three high school seniors navigating their last year of high school and a pandemic.
Stephanie joined GBH News in 2014 as a reporter and was promoted to senior editor in 2018. Her work has aired on NPR, PRI’s The World and PBS Newshour. Before joining GBH News, Stephanie worked as a television reporter and anchor at WLVI-TV in Boston, WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire and WMGT-TV in Macon, Georgia.
