More than two weeks after the presidential election, there are sharp divisions between voters who supported Joe Biden and Donald Trump over nearly all aspects of the election and voting process, including whether their own votes were counted accurately. Trump voters, who already were skeptical of the electoral process and […] Read more »
So, Did ‘Bad Things Happen’ With the Election in Philadelphia?
Joe Biden’s lead in the presidential election results in Pennsylvania has now surpassed 81,000 votes, far exceeding Donald Trump’s 44,000-vote victory margin there four years ago. Yet the Trump campaign continues to claim in court huge but incalculable levels of fraud, particularly in Philadelphia. As with cases filed elsewhere around […] Read more »
The GOP’s Big Self-Own
Congressional Republicans may be engaged in the political equivalent of a murder-suicide by abetting Donald Trump’s claims that the election was stolen from him. By reinforcing Trump’s baseless narrative that he actually won the vote, Republicans could be suffocating President-elect Joe Biden’s already-slim chances of attracting any meaningful support from […] Read more »
Trump’s Attempts to Overturn the Election Are Unparalleled in U.S. History
President Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election are unprecedented in American history and an even more audacious use of brute political force to gain the White House than when Congress gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency during Reconstruction. Mr. Trump’s chances of succeeding are somewhere between remote and impossible, […] Read more »
Election polls are more accurate if they ask participants how others will vote
People have information on how they’ll vote, but also about how others in their community may vote. AP Photo/Wong Maye-E Mirta Galesic, University of Potsdam and Wändi Bruine de Bruin, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Most public opinion polls correctly predicted the winning candidate in the 2020 […] Read more »
Wisconsin: Decisive Again in 2020
Key Points• Once again, Wisconsin appears to be the tipping point state in the Electoral College, though its 10 electoral votes are back in the Democratic column this year.• In 2016, Donald Trump made major inroads in western Wisconsin. Despite coming up short statewide, his gains in the region largely […] Read more »