A veteran political reporter shares the lessons she learned hearing from swing voters

As a political correspondent, NPR's Ashley Lopez regularly speaks to voters about their worries, and their dreams.

But finding swing voters in swing states — the people who can decide elections — can be a difficult assignment.

For this week’s Reporter’s Notebook, Lopez talks about her larger takeaways from working on NPR’s Swing Voter Project.


This episode was produced by Kai McNamee.

It was edited by Ben Swasey and Adam Raney.

Our interim executive producer is Courtney Dorning.

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