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The pandemic resurgence is affecting optimism in the nation. Writing for ABC News, Quinn Scanlan highlights how now 55% of the public say they are pessimistic about the direction of the country, a change from the 36% that said the same in an ABC News/Ipsos poll published May 2. In...
Tammy Webber and Emily Swanson write that among American adults who have not yet received a vaccine, 35% say they probably will not, and 45% say they definitely will not, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. On the other hand, 3% say they...
On January 6th, 2021, hundreds of rioters attacked the building in a bid to preserve Donald Trump’s hold on the presidency. As a result, Trump has been banned from virtually all major online media platforms leading to a call for the repeal of Section 230. Additionally, Wall Street and Silicon...
FiveThirtyEight documents how Democrats Warnock and Ossoff won both Georgia runoff elections — and control of the U.S. Senate. Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler 50.8 percent to 49.2 percent in the special election, and Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated Republican David Perdue, whose term as senator expired on...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...