(For example, economist and data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz estimates that Barack Obama lost about4 percentage pointsin the national popular vote in 2008 and 2012 because of his race, a fairly substantial penalty for being black. Other experts, such as Nate Cohn, who’s now with The ...
many Democratic votersprioritized electability, with plenty believing that Joe Biden wasthe most electable Democratic candidatein a general election against President Trump.Noteveryonebought that argument: Somearguedthat Trump wouldeasilycaricatureBiden andmake him less popularwith voters.EvenFiveThirtyEightwa...
For my money, this is a huge problem. After all, no one remembers a footnote. The message that Trump’s people have put out is that he has an overwhelming popular mandate to implement all of his ghastly, fanatical proposals. Based on the ongoing vote count in California, this appears to...
It is up to the reader to determine how damning these problems are and what we ought to do with them. I am not here to defend the value of publicity or democratic equality one way or another; I merely present problems for advocates of publicity to overcome. Section One: Ensuring Equal ...
A new poll has found that former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are in a dead heat ahead of Election Day.(AP/Alex Brandon/Mike Stewart) Both candidates are tied with 48% of the popular vote, according to aNew York Times/Siena College surveyof 2...
I say this even though I know that as progressive women we’ve been in this space before.Hillary Clintoncame very close to the presidency in 2016 and actuallywon the popular votealthough she fell short in the Electoral College. But this year feels different. The very seasoned political operati...
And some folks on the leftwrung their handsand warned that it’s “probably not helpful” for Soros to be seen with Walz. I’ll preface the rest of this by saying that Alex Soros has been my friend for nearly a decade. Also,my organization, People for the American Way, is among the...
In contrast to President Obama, who overperformed in the Electoral College relative to the popular vote in 2012, Clinton’s coalition (which relied heavily on urban, college-educated voters) was poorly configured for the Electoral College. In contrast to 2012, when hardly any voters were ...
President Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Read More 3 of 11 | In this photo taken on Oct. 26, 2024, and released by Yao Haijun, Yao, the editor in chief of China’s Science Fiction World magazine, right, poses for a photo with American sci-fi writer...
Trump also fielded questions about the economy, guns, climate change and abortion over the more than hour-long town hall. The former president attempted to dodge a woman’s question on whether he agreed with his wife, former first lady Melania Trump,signaling support for ...