For decades, news organizations have refrained from releasing early results in presidential battleground states on Election Day, adhering to a strict, time-honored embargo until a majority of polls there have closed. Now, a group of data scientists, journalists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is seeking to upend that reporting tradition, providing […] Read more »
About Six in 10 Confident in Accuracy of U.S. Vote Count
About six in 10 Americans are confident that votes will be accurately cast and counted in the coming election. This is similar to their confidence level in 2008, but down from levels from 2004 to 2007 when confidence ranged between 71% and 75%. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
The Paranoid Style in American Politics Is Back
… With the odds now favoring a narrow Clinton victory, what would the ramifications be after Nov. 8 if she beats Trump by three or fewer percentage points? First and foremost, the anticipation of such a defeat has released in the Trump camp what the historian Richard Hofstadter famously described […] Read more »
Whom to Vote For? Employees Tend to Follow Their Leader
… The results of a new academic study looking at the power of chief executives over the politics of their employees is stunning and perhaps unsettling. Three business professors set out to examine “how the political preferences of C.E.O.s affect their employees’ campaign contributions and electoral choices.” The results of […] Read more »
This may be the last presidential election dominated by Boomers and prior generations
For the past few decades, presidential elections have been dominated by voters of the Baby Boom and previous generations, who are estimated to have cast a majority of the votes. But their election reign may end this November, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of census data. CONT. […] Read more »
Four in Five Americans Support Voter ID Laws, Early Voting
As partisan-fueled court battles over state voting laws are poised to shape the political landscape in 2016 and beyond, new Gallup research shows four in five Americans support both early voting and voter ID laws. A smaller majority of 63% support automatic voter registration. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »