The latest Des Moines Register poll was released this weekend, and it shows South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg leading Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders in Iowa. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew digs into this poll and discusses […] Read more »
The least useful question in impeachment coverage
The only thing less reliable than the media’s ability to predict presidential nominees months in advance of the first primary votes may be the infamous question “Did it move the needle?” … It is not as if we lack for credible polling, which are a wee bit more accurate than […] Read more »
This Week in Impeachment: Why Can’t Republicans Agree on What Happened with Ukraine?
According to a durable truism of American politics, Republicans find it much easier than Democrats to unite around a single political message. Not all nuggets of conventional wisdom are reliably accurate, but this one has substantial truth behind it: the collective self-definition of the Republican Party as the agent of […] Read more »
What Was Truly Unprecedented in This Week’s Impeachment Hearings?
It’s easy to call an impeachment “historic,” but what kind of history did we really see this week? Most of us couldn’t answer that in real time, but POLITICO Magazine tracked down the tiny handful of Americans who can: The historians and legal analysts who specialize in the rare, high-stakes […] Read more »
Politics with Amy Walter: The Impeachment Will be Televised
This week marked a shift in the ongoing impeachment inquiry as the first round of televised testimony began on Wednesday. Marie Yovanovitch, the well-respected former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine until May of this year became the third televised testimony on Friday. Yovanovitch believes she was removed from her post by […] Read more »
Nothing in the impeachment hearings will change anyone’s minds
Week one of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings is over. The evidence produced so far will do nothing to change Republican support for President Trump. … The hearings exist for the sole purpose of trying to do what previous hearings held by other committees had not been able to […] Read more »