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This installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast explores the role that the Black church plays in American politics, through initiatives like “souls to the polls” and beyond. Joining the podcast are Emory University political scien...
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By Galen Druke More: Apple Podcasts |ESPN App |RSSRepublicans in Georgia’s House of Representatives passed a package of voting laws Mo...
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One week after his first drop, Q was already quoting scripture. “The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing,” Q posted on the imageboard site 4chan. The line was from Psalm 23, possibly the most well-known of the 150 psalms, and a beacon of h...
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Democrats may have a narrow majority in both the House and the Senate for the next two years, but it’s nothing near the margin they hoped for. And the likelihood that Democrats keep both the House and the Senate in 2022 are low, as the pre...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/3/3
Before Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene set off a metal detector outside the House chamber, lost her committee assignments, or hung a transphobic sign in the halls of the Capitol complex, she was just a candidate in a Republican primary in Geor...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/3/2
Pollsters are perplexed. Many believed that the polling errors we saw in 2016 had been adequately addressed in time for the 2020 presidential election. But once again, the polls underestimated support for Donald Trump (and support for Repu...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/3/2
Republicans in the U.S. House last week unanimously opposed President Biden’s economic stimulus bill, even though polls show that the legislation is popular with the public. The U.S. Senate will consider the bill soon — and it looks like t...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/3/2
In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew looks to the past weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference for indications of where the Republican party is headed. They also discuss divisions among Democratic la...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/3/2
By Galen Druke, Perry Bacon Jr., Sarah Frostenson and Micah Cohen, Galen Druke, Perry Bacon Jr., Sarah Frostenson and Micah Cohen, Galen Druke, Perry Bacon Jr., Sarah Frostenson and Micah Cohen and Galen Druke, Perry Bacon Jr., Sa...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/3/1
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump skipped out on the annual Conservative Political Action Conference,...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/3/1
Now that the worst of Texas’s winter storm is over, the question on the minds of many is what — or who — is at fault for the state’s lack of preparedness to a weeklong storm that left many without power or water. It’s too soon to know exac...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/3/1
When voters head to the polls Tuesday to pick St. Louis’s next mayor,Although since this is just the primary, they won’t technically finalize that pick until April 6.">1 they’ll be faced with four names on the ballot. But unlike in most o...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/28
In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, host Galen Druke speaks with Heather Boushey, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, on the rationale behind the American Rescue Plan.
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/27
The current Congress includes more women of color than ever before, thanks to historic wins in the 2020 election. FiveThirtyEight spoke with three political scientists about why it’s taken so long to get to this point, and how having these...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/26
By Galen Druke More: Apple Podcasts |ESPN App |RSSAs Democrats prepare to pass the American Rescue Plan, a member of the White House C...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/26
Facing a Republican Party with a growing anti-democratic contingent, Democrats are debating what to do — to bolster their party and, in the view of some in the party, American democracy itself. At the heart of the discussion is how much st...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/25
We spent the summer and fall of 2020 tracking changes to state voting regulations due to the pandemic, when almost every state relaxed its laws to make it easier to vote. That’s not the case here in 2021, though, as many Republican state l...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/24
As you’ve undoubtedly noticed, the current political environment is super partisan and polarized. We are in the midst of an unprecedented run of close, competitive elections, and Democrats and Republicans are about as far apart ideological...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/23
Heading into the 2020 election, Democrats were favored to not only capture the presidency but also win back the Senate and retain their sizable majority in the House. Much of that came down to the overall national environment, which appear...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/23
In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew looks at the popularity of the Democrats’ COVID-19 relief plan and how both Democrats and Republicans are thinking about its provisions. They also track the latest voting re...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/23
By Galen Druke, Sarah Frostenson and Nate Silver, Galen Druke, Sarah Frostenson and Nate Silver and Galen Druke, Sarah Frostenson and Nate Silver ...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/22
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system.In the spring of 2016, the city of Cleveland agreed to pay $6 million to the family of Tamir Rice...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/22
In the fall of 2015, I was having drinks in Washington with a colleague at the time, now-MSNBC host Joy Reid. (I was working at NBC News.) Donald Trump was leading in the polls of the 2016 Republican presidential primary. But I was confide...
- Five Thirty Eight 2021/2/20
It’s another episode of Confidence Interval, where we make a persuasive case for a hot take we’ve been hearing … and then reveal how confident we really feel about the idea. This time, elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich argues that Democra...
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