Current, former and prospective members as well as other interested people are invited to join the League of Women Voters of Hawaii County to hear retired CBS News veteran Kathleen Frankovic speak at 11 a.m. Saturday at Tex Drive In
Current, former and prospective members as well as other interested people are invited to join the League of Women Voters of Hawaii County to hear retired CBS News veteran Kathleen Frankovic speak at 11 a.m. Saturday at Tex Drive In in Honokaa.
The meeting starts with registration at 9:30 a.m., a welcome, call to order and program planning session at 10 a.m. and Frankovic’s talk, “Expectations of a Trump Presidency,” starting promptly at 11 a.m. There will be a no-host luncheon after her presentation.
“What do Americans want from President Trump? And what do they think they will get?” Frankovic asks. Polls suggest the country remains divided about the prospects and have been slow to rally around the president-elect. Reviewing the election results and pre-inaugural polls, Frankovic will discuss what all this could mean for the Trump administration.
Frankovic retired from full-time work at CBS News in 2009 after spending more than three decades as the point person for the CBS News Poll and the CBS News polling collaboration with The New York Times. She ran the network’s Election Night decision team and successfully projected election results for elections from 2002-08.
Since 2009, Frankovic has been an election and polling consultant for CBS News, YouGov, Harvard University, Open Society Foundations, the Pew Research Center and other survey research organizations.
She has served as president of the World Association for Public Opinion Research and the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and won national awards for her work conducting and explaining public opinion.
Frankovic has a Ph.D. in political science, a subject she taught at the University of Vermont before joining CBS News in 1977. She has lived in Hawaii since 2009.
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues and influences public policy through education and advocacy. Membership in the LWV is open to all citizens of voting age. Noncitizens and citizens not yet of voting age can be associate members.
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