Latino voters swung by eight percentage points toward President Trump in the last election, the biggest swing of any racial or ethnic group in the electorate. Last April, the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast spoke to the team at equis research — a political data company that focuses on Latino voters — about What exactly happened. When … Read more
Decades of polls have found that, in general, more Americans sympathize with the Democratic Party than with the Republican Party. This advantage was so enduring that it has become common wisdom in American politics. But one recent Gallup poll shows that Republicans are taking the lead over Democrats, 47 percent to 42 percent, in how … Read more
US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is planning to retire at the end of the court’s current term, clearing the way for President Biden to appoint a new justice. Biden said during a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina that if elected, he would nominate a Black woman to the nation’s highest court, … Read more
The Senate on Tuesday began debate on the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, despite indications it won’t get 60 votes, nor will key Democrats vote to change the filibuster to include the Voting Rights Act a simple law can be passed by a majority. In this edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, the … Read more
After the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, academics and journalists have proliferated took seriously the possibility of further political violence in the US And polls suggest Americans are worried about that, too. In a December University of Massachusetts Amherst Survey62 percent of respondents said they were at least slightly concerned about violence in … Read more
Americans are exhausted, especially when it comes to COVID-19 and former President Donald Trump. According to the results of a current survey from Axios. On this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew debates what these findings actually mean and how a sense of exhaustion could shape the nation’s politics. They also discuss what … Read more
In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, it appeared that the Republican leadership might be ready to sever ties with then-President Trump once and for all. His attempts to overturn the 2020 election results were just as evident as his support for the people entering the Capitol and his … Read more
At the end of the year, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew looks back at the opinions of Americans on some of the biggest political and cultural issues of 2021. They play a game of “Guess What Americans Think” in which panellists have to guess Americans Opinions on a wide variety of topics including Elon Musk, … Read more
President Biden’s US $ 2 trillion social spending and climate change agenda is in its poorest position yet. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin announced in a TV interview on Sunday that he would not support the Build Back Better Plan. On this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discuss Manchin’s rationale and where … Read more