Given that presidential nominees choose their running mates without any formal input from voters, how they choose can say a lot about the candidate and his views of the party and country. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Perry Bacon Jr. and Julia Azari discuss the considerations former […] Read more »
The Future of the Democratic Party
… The Democratic Party’s foremost goal is to remove President Donald Trump from office, but they’ll need to respond sufficiently to questions surrounding racial and economic inequality in addition to the fault lines exposed by the coronavirus pandemic. A roundtable discussion about the future of the Democratic Party and the […] Read more »
Famed Democratic pollster: Warren as VP would lead to Biden victory
Stan Greenberg, one of the Democratic Party’s longtime leading pollsters, urged Hillary Clinton in 2016 to pick Elizabeth Warren as her vice president. He thinks Clinton would be president had she listened. Now Greenberg — who popularized the term “Reagan Democrats” and came to prominence as Bill Clinton’s lead pollster […] Read more »
The VP effect
538’s Nate Silver on whether or not he thinks Joe Biden needs to pick a running mate from a swing state. This Week, ABC News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up here: opiniontoday.substack Read more »
Fox News Poll: Lack of contact is biggest personal hardship of pandemic
Here are five takeaways on the coronavirus pandemic from the latest Fox News Poll. • More than 6 in 10 voters say the lack of available testing is a major problem, and many feel that way about the lack of a clear federal response.• A majority wants to wait to […] 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 »