later, we talk with emory university professor alan abramowitz. "washington journal" starts now. join the conversation. ♪ host: this is the "washington journal" for october 21. with 15 days to election day, both vice president harris and former president trump are encouraging their voters to vote. new statistics show many registered voters have either taken part in early voting, a voted by mail, with some still saying they plan to vote on election day. to start the program, tell us about your plans evoke, whether you have done it already, whether you plan to do it early, or are waiting until election day, and tell us why you chose that route. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. independents, (202) 748-8002. if you want to share your plan for voting on text, you can do that at (202) 748-8003. you can post on facebook at facebook.com/cspan. as always, you can post on x, at @cspanwj. axios takes a look at the trend of early voting and how it is changing voting overall when it comes to the days leading up to this election day. you can find it online. they wr

alan abramowitz joining us from emory university. you talk about forecasting on the big scale. can we narrow it down? over one million people so far early voting in the state. what does that suggest about an outcome because of the early numbers? guest: i do not think the early voting numbers give us much of a clue about the outcome of the election. they tell us there is a lot of enthusiasm for voting. you would have to break that down and look at what the >> we take you live to a discussion with journalists on the elections. this is being hosted by the election club of washington, d.c. >> covered five presidents for the new york times and is now the chief white house correspondent. casey hunt is with cnn and has her own show in the morning and she has covered congress as well. and ben smith is the interim chief of semaphor. enemy walter is in charge of the most -- amy walters in charge of the cook report with amy walters . thank you all. [applause] david: can any of you recall a time when it was more difficult to predict who would be president this close to the election? >> i w

alan abramowitz joining us from emory university. you talk about forecasting on the big scale. can we narrow it down? over one million people so far