GETTY IMAGES Has modern birth control made abortions a thing of the past? The lawyers for the state of Mississippi want to accuse the US Supreme Court of this. In a brief in the pending case that could overturn abortion rights nationwide, Mississippi attorneys wrote“[E]While abortion was once viewed critically as an alternative to contraception, … Read more
FOTO-ILLUSTRATION VON FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES Willkommen bei Pollapalooza, unserer wöchentlichen Umfragezusammenfassung. Das vergangene Jahr war voll von Wahlen für große Demokratien und Verbündete der Vereinigten Staaten, einschließlich Wahlen in Kanada, Deutschland und Japan im September und Oktober 2021 und im letzten Monat in Frankreich. Und am 21. Maiwird Australien an der Reihe sein, über … Read more
PHOTOILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER/GETTY IMAGES There are certain divisions in the American electorate that we keep coming back to to explain why people think and vote the way they do. Age, gender, race, education – you know the drill. But other, harder-to-spot departments can be just as important, if not more so. These hidden departments … Read more
One in three jobs held by women were deemed essential during the pandemic, with many of those jobs needing to be conducted in-person. Stephanie Keith / Getty Images In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Veronica wasn’t sure how the new disease she’d heard about on the news would affect her. It seemed unreal. … Read more
In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew reacts to the results of Tuesday’s primary elections in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Idaho, Kentucky and Oregon. Results are mixed in terms of which factions within each party did well. Also, the primary marquee Republican race for the US Senate seat in Pennsylvania is still too … Read more
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In this edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses the races featured in Tuesday’s primary elections in Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania. They also introduce a new FiveThirtyEight collaboration with Ipsos, in which we survey Americans on the issues most important to them as the midterm elections approach. The first survey … Read more
FOTO-ILLUSTRATION VON FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES Willkommen bei Pollapalooza, unserer wöchentlichen Umfragezusammenfassung. Nach etwa dreijähriger Pause sind FiveThirtyEights Popularität über Ersatz-Senator und Popularität über Ersatz-Governor-Bewertungen zurück! Basierend auf den Zustimmungswerten von Morning Consult für alle Senator und Gouverneur im Land (jetzt aktualisiert für das erste Quartal 2022) versuchen PARS und PARG zu messen, wie viel … Read more
FiveThirtyEight is looking for a hardworking, well organized and friendly individual scientific Assistant to track and enter polls and other election data, and to contribute research to political stories and projects. This part-time position plays a crucial role in supporting FiveThirtyEight’s political reporting and interactive projects, such as: You will help maintain the databases that … Read more
John Fetterman is Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. He’s a Democrat, he’s covered in tattoos, he’s running for the Senate, and he’s doing really well in his party’s primary. But he’s trending these days because reports have resurfaced that he chased an unarmed black jogger with a shotgun in 2013.