For all the focus on the gender gap, the diploma divide over Donald Trump is looming as an even greater factor in the 2020 presidential race—just as it was in 2016. … It’s remarkable how the outbreak has disrupted every aspect of American life without hugely reconfiguring the landscape for […] Read more »
Poll Reveals COVID-19’s Impacts on African American Communities
Today, NAACP, in partnership with the African American Research Collaborative (AARC) and the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) at Yale School of Medicine presented new polling detailing the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on African American communities. The poll is the first of its kind, with a deep dive […] Read more »
Why Democrats Can’t Rely On Voter Anger This November
… Increased anger isn’t a new phenomenon, but it is a rising one. Political scientist Steven Webster argues in his book, “American Rage,” that this current moment of partisan rancor is the culmination of a long pattern of increased anger in American politics. Webster finds that politicians in both parties […] Read more »
Biden plans to pick a female running mate. Would it make a difference if she’s black?
With a pandemic raging, there’s not much in the way of traditional campaigning for Joe Biden to do right now. But he is managing to conduct the most public series of running mate auditions of any apparent Democratic nominee in decades. On Thursday, Biden appeared on national television for a […] Read more »
Joe Biden needs black voters to win the presidency. And Covid-19 is making them even harder to reach
… Black voters form the backbone of the Democratic Party’s voter base: 93% of African Americans backed President Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012. And this year, black voters in South Carolina helped propel Biden to a landslide victory in the state’s primary, resuscitating his once-struggling campaign and putting him on […] Read more »
Americans differ on views of COVID-19 impact
Americans perceive wide disparities along class, racial, and geographic lines in terms of whose health they think will be most affected by the coronavirus: the working class, more so than the wealthy; cities and suburbs, more than rural areas; African-American and Hispanic communities, more so than white communities; and more […] Read more »