Sixty-eight percent of registered voters think the coronavirus outbreak will have a big impact on election turnout in the U.S., a new poll shows — and nearly 4 in 10 support delaying the November presidential election until the pandemic is under control. The findings are from a TargetSmart survey conducted […] Read more »
Tracking The Pandemic In The Battleground
For the first time in our post-Tea Party era, America responded to a big national challenge with a single voice. Nine in ten Democrats, independents, and Republicans embraced social distancing to fight the pandemic in a way that stopped the economy, split families apart and most of all, left most […] Read more »
We can hold safe elections in November—here’s how we get started now
We are living through an era of enormous challenges—slowing the coronavirus pandemic, finding medicines that could make it less lethal, finding a vaccine for it, and opening up an economy that has been moth-balled. In the midst of these challenges we must keep our democracy open and functioning. Frankly, in […] Read more »
How Coronavirus Will Blow Up the 2020 Campaign
The chaos around Wisconsin’s primary last week has raised the level of concern about November’s Election Day to Defcon-1 status. Will Republican legislators in key states block efforts to expand mail-in voting, and force people to stand in line together? Will we be clear enough of the virus for polling […] Read more »
The Most Important 2020 States Already Have Vote by Mail
In the states that will likely decide the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump has already lost his newly declared war against voting by mail. All six of the swing states that both sides see as the most probable tipping points allow their residents to vote by mail for any reason, […] Read more »
Republicans Pursue Limits on Voting by Mail, Despite the Coronavirus
President Trump and his Republican allies are launching an aggressive strategy to fight what many of the administration’s own health officials view as one of the most effective ways to make voting safer amid the deadly spread of Covid-19: the expanded use of mail-in ballots. … The new political effort […] Read more »