It’s exactly one month to the election. Here are three ways to maximize your power. 1) Students: Figure out the place where your vote matters the most. This site, Make My Vote Matter, figures it out for you. It’s developed by a scientist, Ursula Wong-Brown, and shows you which address has more competitive House/Senate/governor races. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
Three Ways To Maximize Your Power
October 6th, 2018, 3:52pm by Sam Wang
Tags: 2018 Election · House · Politics · Senate
Thomas Hofeller, 1943-2018
August 19th, 2018, 9:59am by Sam Wang
Despite the near-certainty that Democrats will win the national popular vote for House races in November, I still estimate a 10% probability (and other forecasters, up to 25%) that Republicans will retain control. Why? Gerrymandering. More than anyone else, Tom Hofeller was responsible for the modern age of aggressive redistricting. He carried out this program […]
Tags: House · Politics · Redistricting
Politics & Polls #73: What does the North Carolina gerrymandering decision mean?
January 11th, 2018, 3:54pm by Sam Wang
Our podcast’s now available on Spotify! Today, Julian Zelizer and I discussed the North Carolina court decision. What does it mean for reform ahead? Listen to the new Politics & Polls.
Tags: Politics · Princeton · Redistricting
Politics & Polls #67: What happened in Virginia? with Larry Sabato and Geoffrey Skelley
November 17th, 2017, 9:48am by Sam Wang
Democrats scored big wins last week in New Jersey and Virginia elections. Julian Zelizer and I chew it over with Larry Sabato and Geoffrey Skelley. Plus a tiny bit about whether Alabama will elect a child molester as senator, or choose a Democrat who prosecutes KKK terrorists. Life is full of hard choices. All in […]
Politics & Polls: Charlottesville and our broken public discourse
August 17th, 2017, 12:09pm by Sam Wang
The route between public outrage and consequences for President Trump seems quite broken. Why? Julian Zelizer and I chew it over in the new Politics & Polls. The opening is especially lively. Later we get into the regular nerdery.
Sharp cutbacks at HuffPost Pollster
June 15th, 2017, 2:21pm by Sam Wang
Some news about HuffPost Pollster. Due to staff reductions, we have had to dramatically reduce the scope of what we track. — Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) June 15, 2017 This is terrible news. As part of cutbacks at the Huffington Post, the tracking of polls will be curtailed dramatically. As reported by HuffPollster’s Ariel Edwards-Levy, they […]
Tags: Politics
Overcoming your own brain’s bias in the Comey/Trump case
June 7th, 2017, 6:21pm by Sam Wang
Our brains have powerful biases that help us maintain a coherent world view. However, sometimes those biases prevent us from integrating new evidence well. Today, the release of former FBI director James Comey provides an example. Most readers on the left and the right see it as powerful evidence that President Trump attempted to obstruct […]
Politics & Polls: Teen Vogue’s Lauren Duca
June 1st, 2017, 3:20pm by Sam Wang
One of the more interesting post-election voices has been that of the magazine Teen Vogue. Normally one might think of Teen Vogue as being purely oriented toward culture and fashion…but the same could be said of Vanity Fair, GQ, and Rolling Stone – all of which have a strong political voice. Julian Zelizer and I interviewed […]
Tags: Politics
Politics & Polls: Falling Toward Pavement
May 18th, 2017, 1:31pm by Sam Wang
Washington has been hit with a trifecta of catastrophic events in the past week: Trump fires FBI director Comey for investigating Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, then Trump tells secrets to the Russians in the Oval Office, then it emerges that Comey writes memos about all his conversations, including Trump trying to obstruct the […]
Tags: Politics · President · U.S. Institutions
Politics & Polls #28: Katha Pollitt on The Women’s March on Washington
January 26th, 2017, 7:17pm by Sam Wang
Hailed as one of the largest protests in American history, the Women’s March on Washington gathered hundreds of thousands of people in the District and millions in sister marches around the world. In episode #28 of Politics & Polls, Julian Zelizer and I discuss the march and reproductive rights with Katha Pollitt, a columnist for […]
Tags: Politics
