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A handicapper’s confession: What I got right (and wrong) about 2020
‘Expect record turnout’ “It’s too early to declare a winner in the 2020 presidential race, particularly without knowing the Democratic nominee.
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‘Expect record turnout’ “It’s too early to declare a winner in the 2020 presidential race, particularly without knowing the Democratic nominee.
The Obama administration prohibited anyone who had been a registered federal lobbyist in the previous two years from serving in the executive branch without a waiver.
A prior state supreme court decision held that ballots mailed without a secondary secrecy sleeve could be rejected.
But a number of competitive races expected to be called within hours after polls close should provide an early indication of where things are headed.
Toward the end of that cycle, Republicans explicitly argued that voters should not give Bill Clinton a “blank check” — which meant electing a Republican Congress to “check” Clinton.
Yet this year has several reasons why legal challenges could be more likely, including a pandemic across the country, a president raging, without evidence, about voting fraud, and the potential threat
Gardner convinced a majority of his fellow GOP senators this year to back legislation to permanently fund national park maintenance, he broke with longstanding party orthodoxy — which held that Congress should
Both presidential campaigns are focused on that handful of states (along with a few others, like Georgia and Ohio), and we should all watch for changes in public opinion in those crucial places.
He rarely seeks to expand his coalition and often comes off as spiteful and petty, a man without empathy, a champion of religion who never goes to church.
A federal judge said Friday the election for Minnesota’s 2nd District, which had been postponed until February because of the death of a third-party candidate, should be held on Election Day after all.
unusually scathing editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday blasted the Trump administration, noting how quarantine measures have been inconsistent and restrictions were loosened without
The unexpected 2016 presidential result should have been a reminder to think about future potential election scenarios in terms of probabilities rather than binary outcomes.
The president went on to suggest, without evidence, that any delay would be political.
White evangelicals, rural voters, conservatives, and self-identified Republicans are likely to support Trump, as will whites (particularly white men) without a college degree.
Don’t vote twice: That’s the message from election officials in North Carolina following comments this week in the state by Trump, who suggested his supporters should try to vote twice, by mail and
Pence ignores the fact that the economy had been growing without interruption for seven years before Trump took office.
“Biden has foolishly cheerled decades of war without winning, without end.”
Videos and articles suggested Biden would be confiscating weapons should he make it to the White House. But that was unfounded.
Clinton won college graduates by 10 points, 52 percent to 42 percent, while Trump won voters without a college degree by 7 points, 51 percent to 44 percent.
But Trump’s victory should be a lesson in probability rather than a call to ignore data. We should reject the false choice between following the data and being open-minded about less likely results.