The Democratic Party, like every major institution in America, is scrambling to respond to the unprecedented threat the covid-19 pandemic poses to rituals and routines. … In the midst of this chaos, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would do public health and the party he has twice aspired to lead a […] Read more »
Democrats named Biden, Sanders and Warren as their top picks 18 months ago. What did the primaries change?
Former vice president Joe Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president — after a primary involving months of campaigning, 28 Democratic candidates and over $1 billion in ads. Did any of that affect the result? Not much, our research suggests — but they weren’t meaningless. We’ll explain below. […] Read more »
Red states are finally starting to Google ‘coronavirus’
… Some astute analysts have argued that we have to be cautious about highly publicized polling showing that Democrats are a lot more concerned about the virus than Republicans. People could just be echoing their party’s point of view as a kind of partisan cheerleading — a phenomenon that is […] Read more »
NBC News/Marist polls: Biden holds big leads over Sanders in Arizona and Ohio
Former Vice President Joe Biden enjoys significant double-digit leads over Bernie Sanders in Arizona and Ohio, according to a pair of NBC News/Marist polls taken of those two states ahead of their Democratic presidential primaries Tuesday. CONT. Mark Murray, NBC News Read more »
How Uncertainty Around The Coronavirus Affects Our Life And Politics
The spread of the new coronavirus has upended American life overnight. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses how much we don’t know about the crisis when trying to assess its impact on life and politics. They also discuss how the virus is affecting plans of […] Read more »
Can Democrats Win Back Florida?
A sense of doom spread not long ago among weary Florida Democrats, and not over a viral pandemic. They had lost winnable races for governor and Senate two years ago in nail-biter recounts. Many now feared that the state’s voters, with their reflexive disdain for political revolution, would spurn Bernie […] Read more »