A significant number of Americans believe misinformation about the origins of the coronavirus and the recent presidential election, as well as conspiracy theories like QAnon, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll. … One of the most striking poll findings has to do with QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that gained […] Read more »
America’s newest voters look back at the 2020 election – and forward to politics in 2021
Young Americans got involved in the 2020 election. Ariel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty Images Mary Kate Cary, University of Virginia and Robert A. Strong, Washington and Lee University As Americans end one year and begin another, one of the most controversial topics of conversation will be the presidential election. We experienced […] Read more »
Goodbye To 2020
In the final 2020 installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew looks back at the rough and wild year that it was. They consider the most surprising political stories of the year, fess up to what they think they got right (or wrong) and answer questions from listeners. They […] Read more »
A divided nation asks: What’s holding our country together?
Elections are meant to resolve arguments. This one inflamed them. Weeks after the votes have been counted and the winners declared, many Americans remain angry, defiant and despairing. Millions now harbor new grievances borne of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud. Many Democrats are saddened by results that […] Read more »
After a year of pandemic and protest, and a big election, America is as divided as ever
The year 2020 brought extraordinary and unexpected challenges that tested the strength of basic institutions, demanded courage and sacrifice in the face of a raging pandemic, underscored racial and economic inequities, and produced the biggest turnout of voters in the history of U.S. elections. In the end, America was as […] Read more »
Trump’s Fraud Claims Died in Court, But the Myth of Stolen Elections Lives On
President Trump’s baseless and desperate claims of a stolen election over the last seven weeks — the most aggressive promotion of “voter fraud” in American history — failed to get any traction in courts across seven states, or come anywhere close to reversing the loss he suffered to Joseph R. […] Read more »