The American Voter Revisited

Fifty years ago political scientists came out with “The American Voter," their famous profile of those who voted in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections. They concluded most voters cast their ballots primarily on party identification. Now that profile has been updated, and voters have changed less than you might think. We’ll look at America's voting patterns - what's changed, what hasn't and what it says about the state of the nation.

Guest

• Michael Lewis-Beck, coauthor of The American Voter Revisited and the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa