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Pew Polls Americans on What They Want from the Conventions

Season 2012 | 3m 07s

Are political conventions just for policy wonks, journalists and politicos, or do they engage average Americans as well? That is the question at the heart of a recent poll. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pew Research Center's Andy Kohut from the convention floor about the results of that poll.

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