Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Featuring Elliott Morris from 538 and Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University
Join CAPS for an in-depth conversation on the 2024 U.S. elections, with Elliott Morris from 538 and Stephen Ansolabehere, the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government, Harvard University. The conversation will be moderated by Ryan Enos, CAPS Faculty Director, and Professor of Government, Harvard University.
This event is sponsored by the Center for American Political Studies, and cosponsored by the Institute of Politics (IOP).
This event is free but registration is requested.
About the Speakers
Elliott Morris is the Editorial Director of Data Analytics at ABC News, where he develops polling aggregation and election-forecasting models and manages the research and data visualization teams for ABC’s 538. He is a regular guest on the network’s broadcast and streaming news programs providing political analysis on notable events and upcoming elections.
From 2018 to 2023 Morris was a Senior Data Journalist and US Correspondent for The Economist, where he covered American politics, public opinion polling, demographics, and elections — among other topics. He was the lead developer of the paper’s election forecasting models, including for US presidential elections and several European countries. From 2020 to 2023 he also wrote a weekly data column for the paper’s “Checks and Balance” newsletter on US politics.
Morris is also the author of STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them, a book about public opinion polling and democracy which was published in 2022 by W. W. Norton.
Stephen Ansolabehere is the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is a scholar of U. S. elections, representation, and public opinion. He is the principal investigator of the Cooperative Congressional Election Survey, a collaborative research effort involving more than 250 researchers at over 60 universities, and he runs the Harvard Election Data Archive. He has published in fields of political science, law, economics, and statistics. His books include Going Negative: How Political Advertising Shrinks and Polarizes the Electorate and The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote and the Transformation of American Politics. He has just finished Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming. He consults with CBS News Election Decision Desk. He is a Truman Scholar, a Hoover National Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.