Election forecasters took a lot of blame for getting the outcome of the presidential race wrong. But Nate Silver, editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, says the outrage is misplaced because journalists and the public were warned that the race was close. He admits that while there were polling errors, they weren’t out […] Read more »
The Election Of Donald Trump
A special episode on Donald Trump, how he won the presidency, and what his victory means for the future of our country and the future of our politics. This episode, your entire NPR Politics Podcast team: host/campaign reporter Sam Sanders, host/White House correspondent Tamara Keith, campaign reporter Sarah McCammon, editor/correspondent […] Read more »
Media Culpa? The Press and the Election Result
Since Tuesday night, there has been a lot of handwringing about how the media, with all its fancy analytics, failed to foresee Donald Trump’s victory. … Whatever went wrong with the polls in this country, they inevitably colored perceptions. … The prediction models didn’t help things. On Tuesday morning, FiveThirtyEight’s […] Read more »
Most Canadians say Trump victory will hurt their country’s relationship with the U.S.
Canadians are expressing concern that Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election may signal the start of a less-fruitful chapter in the history of Canada-U.S. relations, according to a new public opinion poll from the Angus Reid Institute. Almost two-thirds of Canadians (62%) say they […] Read more »
How the 2016 Election Exposed America’s Racial and Cultural Divides
The 2016 election exposed an America of deep divides over race, ethnicity and culture — a nation carved into two large coalitions, roughly equal in size but radically different in demographics and desires. … The electorate coalitions in 2016 were similar to the 2012 election, with one major exception: white […] Read more »
Why Hillary Clinton lost Pennsylvania: The real story
The emerging conventional wisdom is that Hillary Clinton fell short in the Rust Belt states because her campaign took them for granted and failed to turn out her supporters. In the case of Pennsylvania, this thesis is demonstrably false. CONT. William A. Galston, Brookings Institution Read more »