After the conclusion of the U.S. Supreme Court’s eventful 2019-2020 term, most Americans (58%) approve of the way the judicial body is handling its job — the court’s highest rating in over a decade. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
How the coronavirus is shaping health care politics in 2020
The coronavirus outbreak is now burning primarily through states with the highest share of uninsured residents, complicating the local response and amplifying the political debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act. Caseloads are exploding in many of the 13 remaining states where Republican governors, legislators or both have […] Read more »
Conservatives Didn’t Get The SCOTUS They Wanted This Term
FiveThirtyEight legal reporter Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux joins Galen Druke to look back at a U.S. Supreme Court term full of consequential cases. They also unpack one the final rulings of the term, which permits prosecutors to subpoena the president’s financial records. FiveThirtyEight Read more »
Poll Hub: In Context
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, CNN’s Harry Enten sheds light on the 2020 presidential election. Enten analyzes where Joe Biden’s poll numbers stand at this time and compares them to those of previous presidential candidates. It’s always a good time when Enten visits the podcast. Plus, the Supreme […] Read more »
How Trump Could Improve His Electoral Odds
In this week’s FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the team considers various strategies that President Trump and Republicans could use to improve their electoral prospects this fall — ranging from a new running mate to a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. FiveThirtyEight Read more »
Large Majorities Oppose Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People by Employers, Health Care Providers
Large majorities of Americans think it should be illegal for either employers or health care providers to discriminate against people because they are lesbian, gay or bisexual, or transgender, a new KFF poll finds. This includes large majorities of Republicans, independents and Democrats across a range of questions about such […] Read more »