Exit polls show that when President Trump accused Democrats of exaggerating the gravity of the COVID -19 pandemic his supporters believed him. Trump supporters showed as they voted that they don’t see COVID-19 as a very urgent problem. It leaves the Biden administration with a massive public re-education challenge in […] Read more »
2020 election reveals two broad voting coalitions fundamentally at odds
Even before all the ballots are tallied, Americans appear to have voted in the 2020 presidential election at their highest rate in 120 years. Democrat Joe Biden has amassed more than 74 million votes as of Nov. 6, while Republican Donald Trump has received nearly 70 million – already the […] Read more »
Election Day Poll: What Happened, And What Does It Mean?
President Elect Joe Biden will win the popular vote by perhaps 5 points and the Electoral College. He did it by reinforcing the Democratic trends in the new diverse states and country, winning Arizona and Georgia by razor thin margins. He did it by taking and holding onto the blue […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Majority trusts Biden on COVID, half say virus is out of control
Less than a week before Election Day, the electorate’s outlook is gloomy. More than 6-in-10 rate economic conditions negatively and only about 2-in-10 think coronavirus is under control in the U.S., according to the latest Fox News national survey of likely voters. In fact, just over half, 51 percent, say […] Read more »
Implications of the 2020 Election for U.S. Health Policy
This article explores the implications of the 2020 election for the future of health policy in the United States. A substantial body of research has shown that policy decisions made by nationally elected officials in recent years more closely reflect the views of their party’s adherents than they do the […] Read more »
How coronavirus is sinking Trump’s election hopes
I have long argued that coronavirus was the only election issue that really mattered. History tells us that when a non-economic issue is topping the list of the nation’s problems in a presidential election year, then the candidate who is trusted most on that issue almost always wins. Coronavirus is […] Read more »