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MSU Professor: economy, pandemic will be the focus for local elections in 2022

Dr. Elizabeth Dudash-Buskirk, Associate Professor of Political Communication at MSU
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Dr. Elizabeth Dudash-Buskirk, Associate Professor of Political Communication at MSU

This week, host Erika Brame speaks with Dr. Elizabeth Dudash-Buskirk, associate professor of political communication at Missouri State University.

Today’s discussion explores how local elections are not divided on party lines, but the size of the community. Dudash-Buskirk speaks of differing concerns of rural versus urban residents in southwest Missouri, and explores the two biggest anticipated topics of focus for upcoming elections.