The 2020 presidential election has provided Americans with one of the wildest political roller-coaster rides in 20 years. Predicted to be a blowout, a winner wasn’t announced until four days after Election Day as Americans waited for the votes to be counted. Even now, contestants on both sides anticipate a court battle before the results are finalized. At this year's annual conference, the Baker Institute’s Presidential Elections Program hosted political experts from around the country to examine the lead-up to the elections and the ramifications of the aftermath during a three-day program.
On the first day of the conference, experts explored why the polls were off in their predictions and how COVID-19 has impacted different aspects of the election process.
For more details, please see the agenda below. To view information for the other two days, please click here.
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Panel I
Panel II
Agenda — Day 1
11:00 am |
Welcome |
11:05 am |
Panel I: What Happened with the Polls in 2020?Moderated by: Mark P. Jones, Ph.D., Co-Director, Presidential Elections Program; Political Science Fellow, Baker Institute for Public Policy Lonna Atkeson, Ph.D. Kenneth Goldstein, Ph.D. Daron Shaw, Ph.D. |
12:30 pm |
Panel II — COVID-19 and the 2020 Election ProcessModerated by: The Honorable Jason Villalba, Chairman, Board of Directors and President, Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation; Financial Lawyer, Foley & Lardner LLP; Former Member of the Texas House of Representatives, Dallas County’s Texas House District 114 Zac Moffatt Chuck Rocha Mindy Romero, Ph.D. |
1:45 pm |
Closing Remarks |