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Younger voters propelled Biden to victory over Trump in 2020, new study finds
Alex Roarty | May 10, 2021 A sharp increase in the number of voters from the youngest two generations helped President Joe Biden win the 2020 election, according to a new study from a Democratic analytics firm, boosting him over former President Donald Trump despite the incumbent’s high levels of support among seniors. The report, published…
Read MoreMassive turnout, voters of color — new data fill in the details on Biden’s election win
David Lauter | May 10, 2021 High turnout among voters of color, increased support among white voters with college degrees, and a stop — or a least a pause — in declining support for Democrats among white voters without degrees: President Biden needed all of that for his victory in November and he, or some…
Read MoreOpinion: The biggest 2020 election surprise you probably never heard of
Jennifer Rubin | May 10, 2021 Polling and data analysts are finally obtaining actual voter files from the 2020 election, freeing them from their reliance on questionable exit polling. Some of the findings confirm what we already knew: the decline of non-college-educated Whites as a percentage of the electorate [Catalist analysis] (from 51 percent in 2008 to…
Read MoreA new report complicates simplistic narratives about race and the 2020 election
The report from the firm Catalist looks at what changed since 2016, but also at the parties’ coalitions overall. Andrew Prokop | May 10, 2021 In the days and weeks after presidential election results come in, commentators attempting to figure out what happened with voter demographics are often in a fog — forced to rely on unreliable…
Read MoreHow the Trump Era Has Strained, and Strengthened, Politically Mixed Marriages
Fewer people want to date those with different political views. But couples are also talking through political issues more. By: Claire Cain Miller | October 26, 2020 There are few remaining areas of American life in which people aren’t sorting themselves by political allegiances — including romantic relationships. Politically mixed marriages are rare, and over the…
Read MoreThe unemployment rate in some neighborhoods is triple the national average
By Jasmine Garsd | October 12, 2020 Near the southernmost tip of the Bronx, in the back of a very small, empty Mexican restaurant, Natalia Méndez is scrubbing the stove. This used to be lunch hour at La Morada. People would line up outside to eat Mendez’s cooking. Then the pandemic hit. And unemployment started to creep up.…
Read MoreHow to deal when you and your partner are political opposites
Relationship experts discuss how to navigate dating and relationships in our charged political times. Nicole Spector | September 28, 2020 When Nicole Moore, the CEO and owner of Love Works near San Diego, started her relationship coaching business nearly a decade ago, the issue of politics seldom if ever came up with her clients. Then came 2016, the election year…
Read MoreMillennials and seniors are spurning Trump. Here’s why middle-aged voters are sticking with him.
Alex Roarty | September 14, 2020 Generation Z loathes him. Millennials overwhelmingly back his opponent. And even once-supportive seniors have turned away. As his turbulent re-election bid enters its final phase, President Donald Trump has been hindered by lackluster approval from most generations of voters — with one important exception. In poll after poll of…
Read MoreIn These Neighborhoods, the Jobless Rate May Top 30 Percent
By Quoctrung Bui and Emily Badger | August 5, 2020 The economic damage from the coronavirus is most visible in areas like Midtown Manhattan, where lunch spots have closed, businesses have gone dark and once-crowded sidewalks have emptied. But some of the worst economic pain lies in other neighborhoods, in the places where workers who’ve endured the broadest…
Read MoreThe Pandemic Hasn’t Changed Voters’ Minds About Trump
Education remains the most important dividing line in America. Ronald Brownstein | May 21, 2020 For all the focus on the gender gap, the diploma divide over Donald Trump is looming as an even greater factor in the 2020 presidential race—just as it was in 2016. Amid the coronavirus outbreak, women generally express more financial…
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