Americans are rapidly losing faith in President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, according to national polls released over the past week. What’s more, some of that drop-off is occurring among groups that Mr. Trump will need to retain as he looks ahead to a difficult re-election battle in the […] Read more »
The Uncertainty of Our New Normal: A Data Dump
… We should expect significant behavioral change as the COVID-19 reality modifies our data-to-day lives. To capture this, we partnered with Axios and published our first installment of the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus poll on Wednesday this week. This will be our baseline to gauge behavioral change (companies, people, and governments) going […] 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 »
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 »
Biden’s older voters are showing up. Sanders’ young voters aren’t
Super Tuesday was not so super for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. He lost most of the states up for grabs, and it’s quite possible that he’ll end up with fewer delegates on the evening than chief rival former Vice President Joe Biden. Sanders’ struggles reflect an inability to connect with […] Read more »
Millennials’ Religiosity Amidst the Rise of the Nones
… There are a number of structural factors at work reshaping today’s religious landscape. Americans as a whole are less likely to say they have a formal religious identity, and less likely to report being frequent church attenders. These trends are more evident among millennials than among those who are […] Read more »