State of the Race 2024
In Person
Nathaniel Rakich, Ariel Edwards-Levy, and Simone Pathe will join the Institute to offer their insights into the 2024 election and how to interpret polls with a healthy uncertainty about the outcome. The conversation will be moderated by the Institute’s executive director, Neil Levesque.
About the panelists:
Ariel Edwards-Levy is editor of polling and election analytics at CNN, covering the intersection of politics and public opinion. Before joining CNN, Ariel was a senior reporter and polling editor at HuffPost. She is a member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and the winner of the 2019 APSA Carey McWilliams Award for major journalistic contributions to the understanding of politics. Edwards-Levy is a Los Angeles native and a graduate of the University of Southern California.
Nathaniel Rakich is a senior editor and senior elections analyst at 538. Before joining 538 in 2018, he wrote about politics for Inside Elections, The New Yorker, POLITICO, Roll Call, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and the Boston Globe. In a previous life, he also blogged about baseball and worked as an editor for Let's Go Travel Guides. He graduated from Harvard University in 2010.
Simone Pathe is the senior Washington editor for CNN Politics, which she joined in early 2020. She writes CNN’s regular rankings of the 10 Senate seats most likely to flip and contributes other campaign stories.
Prior to joining CNN, Pathe was a senior political reporter at Roll Call, where she covered US Senate and House races around the country. Before that, she was a reporter/producer for the PBS NewsHour, where she edited the economics blog. She got her first taste of covering campaigns at The Hotline during the 2012 election. Pathe graduated from Bates College with degrees in politics and French. Originally from New Jersey, Pathe lives and works in Washington, DC.
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