A sense of doom spread not long ago among weary Florida Democrats, and not over a viral pandemic. They had lost winnable races for governor and Senate two years ago in nail-biter recounts. Many now feared that the state’s voters, with their reflexive disdain for political revolution, would spurn Bernie […] 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 »
Biden leads Sanders by 2-to-1 margin among Democratic primary voters
With the Democratic nomination race now down to a one-on-one contest between former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Democratic primary voters now back Biden — who was a distant second to Sanders just one month ago — by an overwhelming two-to-one margin, according to a new […] Read more »
Biden surge, coronavirus spread force reappraisal of the general election
Former vice president Joe Biden’s sudden emergence as the Democratic front-runner and the disruptions caused by the spreading coronavirus are altering calculations about the shape of a general election campaign that only weeks ago many Democrats feared was tipping in the direction of President Trump. … Biden’s sizable victory in […] 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 »