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August 8, 2024

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Kamala Harris Crowd Size Compared to JD Vance’s in Viral Video

Newsweek

Barry Burden, a professor of politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggested that Harris’ ability to draw large crowds would benefit her in the 2024 race. “It has been a point of pride among Trump’s supporters that his rallies have attracted much larger crowds than did Biden in 2020 or Clinton in 2016,” Burden told Agence France-Presse. He added, “Now that Harris is speaking to large crowds that rival or exceed Trump’s, this rationale for believing Trump is the advantaged candidate disappears.”

Madison expands air quality monitors to pinpoint causes of pollution

The Capital Times

When Tracey Holloway studied Madison’s air quality last year under a contract for Madison Gas and Electric, she walked away surprised that “transportation and coal-fired power plants weren’t a bigger part of the pie.”

Holloway is a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of energy analysis and policy, and a science advisor to Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway. The mayor announced the installation of the new monitors on July 22.

Both Trump and Harris are missing many moderate voters, poll says

The Capital Times

Allison Prasch, a political rhetoric scholar from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks Walz’s approach to policy might be refreshing for voters turned off by the extremes.

“Walz has an ability to speak to voters in such a way that it brings the focus back to what we might call kitchen table issues — cost of child care, grocery budget, thinking about health care — and I think that that has a way of connecting with voters who understandably are exhausted by this looming, never-ending cycle of existential crisis,” Prasch said.