Key Points• In a highly unusual situation, both of Georgia’s Senate seats will be on the ballot next month — one seat was already scheduled to be elected, while the other is a special election.• As January’s result will decide control of the Senate, both sides are invested in Georgia’s […] Read more »
Why The Suburbs Have Shifted Blue
… Suburban and exurban counties turned away from Trump and toward Democrat Joe Biden in states across the country, including in key battleground states like Pennsylvania and Georgia. In part, this may be because the suburbs are simply far more diverse than they used to be. But suburbs have also […] Read more »
Four decades and counting — the GOP’s shift to the right is bigger than the Democrats’ shift left
… Today, conservatives and Republicans like to point to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and the “squad” in the House to argue that Democrats have moved so far to the left that their party can’t compete for voters in the political center. There is, of course, some truth to that, but […] Read more »
The ‘urban myth’ behind the GOP claims of voter fraud
The Supreme Court’s rejection last week of the lawsuit from Texas and 18 other Republican-led states effectively ended the legal efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his election defeat. But the case likely marks the start of a new round of Republican efforts to challenge the […] Read more »
Partisan pandemic: How partisanship and public health concerns affect individuals’ social mobility during COVID-19
Rampant partisanship in the United States may be the largest obstacle to the reduced social mobility most experts see as critical to limiting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing a total of just over 1.1 million responses collected daily between April 4th and September 10th reveals not only that […] Read more »
Trump made big in-roads in Hispanic areas across the nation
One of the most notable early results on Election Night came from Florida’s heavily Hispanic Miami-Dade county. President Donald Trump lost it to President-elect Joe Biden by just 7 points, after losing it by 29 points in 2016. A big question was whether Trump’s improvement in Miami-Dade would be replicated […] Read more »