… Ultimately, President-elect Joe Biden won the contests that mattered most, besting Trump by 7.1 million votes nationally and scoring pathbreaking wins in Georgia and Arizona. But beneath the surface, despite low approval ratings, high unemployment and a raging pandemic whose handling he had fumbled, Trump’s strength grew among key […] Read more »
The Trade: Meet the New Red Dog Democrats
… Over the last four years, some people who have traditionally been with the Republicans are finding that they were traded to a new team. And vice versa. Everyone intuitively knows that has happened, but for various reasons, many in the Washington political class don’t seem willing to accept the […] Read more »
Why Georgia’s Senate runoffs are too close to call
Georgia is on every political junkie’s mind in the lead up to the state’s two Senate runoffs on January 5. … To win either or both races, Democrats need either to get Republican voters in November to vote for the Democrats in January, win the bulk of November third party […] Read more »
Immigrant Neighborhoods Shifted Red as the Country Chose Blue
Across the United States, many areas with large populations of Latinos and residents of Asian descent, including ones with the highest numbers of immigrants, had something in common this election: a surge in turnout and a shift to the right, often a sizable one. The pattern was evident in big […] Read more »
How Trump drove the lie that the election was stolen, undermining voter trust in the outcome
… To preserve his hold on power, Trump has spent the weeks since Election Day promoting falsehoods about voting problems in Georgia and five other states, successfully persuading tens of millions of his supporters to believe a lie — that the election was stolen from him, and from them. He […] Read more »
Did Biden win by a little or a lot? The answer is … yes.
With the Electoral College tallies last week, the 2020 presidential race is finally over, but Democrats and Republicans continue to argue about the results. And one debate in particular lingers: Did President-elect Joe Biden win by a little or by a lot? The answer is … yes, depending on how […] Read more »