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PBS NewsHour | Pew Polls Americans on What They Want from the Conventions | PBS

Duration: 03:07
Program: PBS NewsHour #10441
Broadcast Date: Aug. 27, 2012

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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Post Date: August 27, 2012