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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...
We have covered how this last debate was a lost opportunity for President Trump for while he performed better, less people watched it than the last debate, and almost ten million less people watched it than the last one which took place in 2016. However, Shawn Tully at Fortune shows...
Kiran Stacey at Financial Times notes about 10m fewer people watched the final presidential debate on Thursday night than the first one a month ago amid signs there are not that many undecided voters with just over a week until the election. Nearly 63m people tuned into the debate, according to Nielsen,...
I have discussed before how the stock market tends to do better under Democratic Presidents. We’ve had one term of President Trump and here we are hoping a deal for stimulus can be reached to help out struggling businesses and workers due to a pandemic that surely would be killed...
In the New York Times, Michael Sokolove has a piece detailing how the gender gap in voting is really the white male gap. He actually calls it the white male problem. Why? Because if only white men voted, we’d be in trouble. The U.S. gender gap has been the subject...
Bill Ruthhart, along with pollsters Charles Franklin and Barry Burden, have an extensive analysis of the state of the 2020 presidential election in the important states of Michigan and Wisconsin up on the Chicago Tribune. On Election Day 2016, the polls showed Hillary Clinton with a nearly 4 percentage point...
Jessica Menton at USA Today details how the extra $600 in aid from the federal government began chipping away at a longstanding racial gap in jobless aid received by Black Americans and white Americans. However, with Congress at a months long impasse over a new relief package that would renew the $600,...
Jim Geraghty at National Review looks into it guided by the Reuben Navarette’s recent article in the Washington Post. Latinos are not a monolith (as we are constantly reminded by black people), so whom are the Latinos for Trump? As far as we can tell from public-opinion polls, there are...
The number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States rose as of Wednesday for a third straight day, with more than 62,000 new cases reported, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. Kate Smith of CBS News reports that black women continue to disproportionately bear the brunt of the economic devastation caused by...