President Trump and his Republican allies are launching an aggressive strategy to fight what many of the administration’s own health officials view as one of the most effective ways to make voting safer amid the deadly spread of Covid-19: the expanded use of mail-in ballots. … The new political effort […] Read more »
The Wisconsin election was a mess. But there’s one element of it worth emulating.
Wisconsin held the first coronavirus election on Tuesday. It was a disaster, but an oddly helpful one. Helpful, because those snaking lines of mask-clad voters can serve as a warning to other states: Strengthen your mail-based voting systems now, or risk catastrophe. And the delay in reporting the state’s results […] Read more »
The briefings aren’t working: Trump’s approval rating takes a dip
In times of national crisis, the American people typically come together behind their president. But not this one. Donald Trump isn’t benefiting from what political scientists refer to as a “rally ‘round the flag” effect — a traditional surge in popularity as the nation unites behind its leader during an […] Read more »
Anxiety about coronavirus is widespread in L.A. County
An overwhelming percentage (78%) of Los Angeles County residents say they are concerned that they or a member of their family will contract the novel coronavirus, according to a survey conducted between March 18 and 26 and released today by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. CONT. UCLA Read more »
The primary difference
Juxtaposing the 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries creates something like an experiment. Two different candidates, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, faced the same opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), in many of the same states, with the same potential electorate. Yet the results were quite different. Biden did far better than […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Views of economy plummet as financial hardship from coronavirus hits half of Americans
Six in 10 Americans now say the economy is in poor shape, up 30 points since last month, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The shift is the steepest worsening of public perceptions of the economy in polling dating back to 1997. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »