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 »
‘Older Americans are more worried about coronavirus — unless they’re Republican’ — Take II
Philip Greengard points us to the above-titled news article by Philip Bump. The article was just fine, a reminder of modern-day political polarization. The only thing that bothered me were the graphs. I redrew them. CONT. Andrew Gelman (Columbia U.), Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science Read more »
Public attitudes about the coronavirus response are split along partisan lines
A majority of American voters say they’re worried that someone in their immediate family might catch the coronavirus, and six-in-10 believe the worst is yet to come for the outbreak inside the United States, a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds. In addition, more than 40 percent say […] Read more »
Older Americans are more worried about coronavirus — unless they’re Republican
… Earlier this week, Quinnipiac University released polling showing that older Americans are, in fact, more likely to express concern about they or someone they know being infected with the virus. … But while older Democrats are far more concerned about it than younger Democrats, older Republicans are about as […] Read more »
Trump Supporters Know Where to Turn in a Crisis: To Him
… In conversations over the course of the past week, as the news and administration action on the virus moved quickly, Mr. Trump’s supporters overwhelmingly have said they trust the president and they trust whom he trusts. They are not, in large part, completely dismissive of the virus, the way […] Read more »
A virus upends the 2020 election and tests Trump’s invincibility
Two weeks ago, Bernie Sanders was the Democratic presidential front-runner, the U.S. economy was humming and President Donald Trump had reason to be optimistic about his re-election prospects. Then the first American died from the coronavirus. The campaign as we knew it would soon be over. CONT. Sahil Kapur, NBC […] Read more »