WisPolitics.com's Midwest Polling Summit held Oct. 9 in Madison featured top experts talking about the issues and trends that will affect campaign 2020 and key Midwest battlegrounds, including Wisconsin.

The afternoon began with a primer on Midwest views on health care issues from nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation polling expert Ashley Kirzinger

Following Kirzinger's address, a panel focused on the political perspective and featured top campaign advisers with strong Midwest ties: Celinda Lake, Paul Maslin, B.J. Martino and Brian Reisinger.

A “future of polling” panel followed, and was led by the director of the Marquette University Law School Poll Charles Franklin and include Mike Podhorzer, the former political director of AFL-CIO and now senior adviser to its president, Ashlee Rich Stephenson, vice president and national political director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Nick Mastronardi, CEO of Polco, as well as Ray Block, associate professor of political science and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University.

UW-Madison political scientist and author Katherine Cramer then provided closing remarks on public opinion research.

This event was sponsored by the Outrider Foundation and The Capital Times. We thank them for their generous support.