Since Election Day, numerous false allegations of fraud have been published on social media and repeated elsewhere, most of which have been easily debunked, yet a large swath of the population still appears to believe them. According to a recent poll roughly three-quarters (77%) of Trump backers say former Vice […] Read more »
County to County: 5 places that told the 2020 election story
A little more than a year ago, the Meet the Press team identified five counties to watch as part of an effort called County to County. The goal was to use those counties to explore larger trends in the electorate to get a feel for how different kinds of voters […] Read more »
The Pa. county that explains how Biden won big while other Democrats struggled
The blue wave sputtered ashore at the intersection of Routes 30 and 100, in the heart of Exton, Pa., a suburb 30 miles west of Philadelphia. That intersection, at the heart of the wealthy and thriving Chester County, is one of the key dividing lines of American politics. It illustrates […] Read more »
Culture wars fuel Trump’s blue-collar Latino gains
Donald Trump lost the presidency, but showed Republicans a way to win the culture wars with working-class Hispanics. Despite four years of being defined as a racist for his rhetoric and harsh immigration policies, Trump improved his margins in 78 of the nation’s 100 majority-Hispanic counties. And he did better […] Read more »
How Georgia proves Trump has no chance of winning
President-elect Joe Biden is going to be the next president of the United States. That hasn’t stopped President Donald Trump and his campaign from claiming without any proof that there was wide scale fraud in the 2020 election. The truth, as confirmed by an audit of Georgia’s votes, is that […] Read more »
Don’t write off Latino voters. Meet them at the local level
… What 2020 showed emphatically is that much of what moves Latino voters — and all voters for that matter — happens at the local level. That’s where you find committed organizers and interest groups, working diligently in their own communities, district by district, county by county, state by state. […] Read more »