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Why Democratic Turnout Cratered — And Why It Won’t Be Easy to Fix
Politics tamfitronics In the days following Donald Trump’s 2024 election win, Democratic politicians, journalists, and pundits have been searching for potential explanations for Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat. We have offered up some of our own. On Monday, Rolling Stone spoke with Michael Podhorzer, former longtime political director for the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of unions, to gain more insight into what went so wrong for Democrats.Podhorzer, who chairs the Analyst Institute and is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, is an expert in data-driven politics. In a blog post Monday, he writes that the election results were not about Americans embracing Trumpism — but rather a continuation of a trend in U.S. politics: Elections are consistently “change elections,” because “Americans are simply fed up with the system not working for...
How different turnout models change the NBC News poll results
Top Stories Tamfitronics Close elections always come down to turnout. And while there remain a lot of unknowns ahead of November’s presidential election, one thing seems almost certain: It’s going to be close, at least in many of the key states that will decide the election.So the bipartisan polling team behind the NBC News poll, Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research Associates, devised an experiment. What happens to the ballot test in NBC News’ brand-new national poll when you assume a turnout model that benefits the Democratic Party versus one that favors the GOP?The results won’t be much of a surprise. But the exercise is instructive, showing how relatively small shifts in the demographic makeup of the electorate could prove important in a close election.Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are tied...
Late turnout of materials, voters delay Rivers LG election
Top Stories Tamfitronics PORT HARCOURT (SUNDIATA POST)- Late turnout of election materials and voters was observed in several polling units of Woji Ward 6 in Obio/Okpor of Rivers, during Saturday’s local government council election.A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent monitoring the election reports that as at 10:45 a.m., election materials has yet to arrive at the polling units.At polling units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 16, 29 and 30, accreditation has not started, with only a few voters present, waiting in anticipation to cast their ballots.Some voters, along with a few party agents, were seen discussing the elections while awaiting the arrival of materials.There was no visible presence of security agencies at the polling units due to a Federal High Court order restraining the Police and the State Security Service (DSS) from...
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