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Allan Smith of NBC News reports So far, more than 20 percent of the early vote nationwide has come from 2016 nonvoters, according to data from the NBC News Decision Desk/TargetSmart, a Democratic political data firm. With 77 million having already cast early votes — a number that the Decision Desk...
Ben Leonard of the Baltimore Sun reports how Maryland reported 962 new coronavirus cases Thursday — the most new daily cases since Aug. 1 — and 11 deaths tied to COVID-19, the disease the virus causes. Maryland Covid-19 Cases are indeed spiking. Hospitalizations Thursday’s reported 502 current hospitalizations set a...
The Commerce Department reported that the pandemic economy grew at an annualized pace of 33.1% in the third quarter. That headline figure overstates the actual growth rate, however, just as the official number for the April to June quarter showing an annualized contraction of 31.4% exaggerated the economy’s decline (Both figures describe...
Fewer governors are up for reelection in presidential years than in midterms, but Jim Geraghty of National Review reviews some of the more interesting ones. Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Forest just isn’t making incumbent Democrat Roy Cooper sweat at all though both the Presidential and Senate races are close. Washington...
Jim Geraghty at National Review outlines how Trump won with 306 electoral votes four years ago and thus he can give away 36 electoral votes and hit the critical threshold of 270. He doesn’t need to win Wisconsin. He doesn’t need to win Michigan. He could lose both of those...
Donald Trump boasts he’s the best president for Blacks since Abe Lincoln. But are Black lives really better under his administration? Charisse Jones at USA Today answer the question. Unemployment Three years into the Trump administration, African Americans experienced a record low unemployment rate of 5.4% in August 2019. But the...
I have already talked about the small bump for the President in Biden-Trump polling post-debate in the state of Pennsylvania. Entering the closing week of the 2020 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden’s favorability ratings remain relatively unchanged since at least the summer according to...
The Economist examines the chances of a tarheel blue wave based on an examination of the swing state of North Carolina. By the time Donald Trump and Joe Biden held their debate this week, around 50 million ballots were already cast—almost 40% of the total in 2016. Union County, North...
At Bloomberg, there’s a deep dive into the major impact Latino voters could have on the 2020 election. Trump and Biden are spending more time and attention on Latino voters in the 2020 campaign as, for the first time, Latinos outnumber African Americans among eligible voters. A large turnout could...
Forbes explored October 16th data from the Ipsos U.S. Consumer Confidence Weekly Tracker (data as of October 22nd was consistent with it) which found a nearly 10-point gap in the reported consumer confidence of white respondents (54.9) and non-white respondents (45.2), a gap that has been growing considerably since late...