Hispanic voters go to the polls for early voting in 2004. G. De Cardenas/Getty Images Eliza Willis, Grinnell College and Janet A. Seiz, Grinnell College Joe Biden won Florida’s 2020 Democratic primary, capturing a majority of the state’s Latino voters. Polls have been tracking the Latino vote in Democratic presidential […] Read more »
Coronavirus is a test Trump can’t pass with ideology alone
The coronavirus’ relentless spread is exposing Donald Trump to a question no president wants to hear: Is he up to the job? For supporters and opponents alike, questions about Trump’s basic competence as a manager of the federal government have taken a back seat during his presidency to the fierce […] Read more »
As much of America takes drastic action, some Republicans remain skeptical of the severity of the coronavirus pandemic
… Inside the Republican Party and the conservative movement that Trump commands, there is now a deep divide as the nation confronts the coronavirus. For weeks, many on the right, including Trump, minimized the virus, if they considered it at all. Even in recent days, as much of the world […] Read more »
Biden is nipping at Trump’s heels in Florida, where Cubans and Puerto Ricans view the president very differently
Joe Biden has a crushing lead over Bernie Sanders among Florida’s registered voters, within days of the March 17 Democratic primary in the state, according to a new Univision News poll. If he becomes the nominee, the former vice president will be in a tight race with Donald Trump, as […] 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 »
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 »