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  • Letters From an American
    The Lie That Smolders
    March 20, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    While 87% of Democrats think what Trump did was wrong and that he should have been convicted of inciting the insurrection, 66% of people who believe that Trump won the election say that the riot at the Capitol is getting too much attention.

  • Letters From an American
    Biden: “America is back”
    February 20, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    White House initiatives are up in the polls.
  • Letters From an American
    The Boy Who Called Fraud
    November 6, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    What has stood out today is the degree to which Trump and his team have governed by creating their own reality. Now that that image is being challenged, they are flailing.

  • Fight to Vote
    After the Polls
    November 2, 2020
    | BillMoyers.com Staff

    All the groups that we recommended to you last night posted large caveats on their sites — DO NOT EXPECT RESULTS ON ELECTION NIGHT. All these sites continue to provide quality information and analysis.   WATCHING THE RESULTS (and watching and watching) The first thing the go-to site FiveThirtyEight is to warn Americans: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-were-planning-for-an-election-day-that-could-last-months/ For night-of guidance use FiveThirtyEight's ultimate guide It provides a complete guide to poll closing times, vote counting and races to watch on election night 2020 The level ...

  • Fight to Vote
    More Than 10-hour Wait and Long Lines as Early Voting Starts in Georgia
    October 14, 2020
    | Sam Levine

    Voters began lining up outside polling stations in the predawn hours, some using their cellphone flashlights to help other voters fill out pre-registration forms.

  • Letters From an American
    State of Play
    October 8, 2020

    October 7, 2020 Recent polls suggest that Trump’s debate performance last week (was it only last week?!) and his attempt to look strong after coronavirus spread through the White House have not helped him politically. Most polls have him behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by double digits. An article in Politico today was subtitled: “The new surveys fall into two buckets: those that are bad for the president, and those that are horrible.” Trump’s plan for the election ...

  • Letters From an American
    Changing the Media Narrative
    June 8, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Trump and the GOP are trying to change the poll numbers because they have lost control over the country’s narrative. The president rode to the White House on the argument that people of color and women were criminal socialists demanding a government handout, paid for by taxes on hardworking white men, but all of a sudden, with white police officers murdering a handcuffed Black man, and police riots during protests over that killing, it is ...

  • Media
    Who’s Faking, Trump or the News?
    May 1, 2017
    | Todd Gitlin
    How much of America is locked into a looking-glass world?
  • Democracy & Government
    Why Isn't Hillary Clinton 50, or Even 15, Points Ahead?
    October 4, 2016
    | Todd Gitlin
    Our media critic comes up with the word that explains why Hillary Clinton isn't thrashing Donald Trump in the polls.
  • Society
    Actually, Women DO Vote Based on Gender
    June 15, 2016
    | Ann Jones
    And they see through Trump's abusive behavior, even if the media don’t.


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