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10:00Expected Voter Turnout

A panel of pollsters discuss which issues will drive voters to the polls and which might keep them at home.

Guests

Rich Morin, senior editor, Pew Research Center; former polling director at the Washington Post

Geoff Garin, Democratic pollster, Peter D. Hart Research Associates

Whit Ayres, Republican pollster at Ayres, McHenry & Associates, Inc.

11:00Bill Bryson: "The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir" (Broadway)

Bill Bryson has written about his world travels in bestselling books like "A Walk in the Woods," "I'm A Stranger Here Myself" and "In a Sunburned Country." Now he visits his own Midwestern childhood in a new memoir.

Guests

Bill Bryson, journalist and author

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