Is the Era of Polling Over?
Valery Sharifulin/TASS via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.What happened with the political polling this year? How did it manage to be so far off? Without doing a deep dive, here’s the nutshell answer. It’s always been the case that not everyone…
The Media Has Not Ignored the Hunter Biden Story
Consolidated News Photos/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Why has the mainstream media mostly ignored the Hunter Biden story? According to Trump supporters, it’s evidence of a silent conspiracy not to publish anything in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign…
Friday Cat Blogging – 30 October 2020
Smart, Fearless Journalism Politics Environment Crime and Justice Food Media Investigations Photos Magazine Podcasts Mother Jones’ union co-chair Patrick Caldwell connects the dots: Facebook’s decision to throttle our content cost Mother Jones at least $400,000—the same amount we had to cut from our payroll this year. Please read his post, and if you can, chip…
Here’s What They Think of Donald Trump in Lordstown
TNS via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.A couple of years ago General Motors announced that it was closing its assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio. The Guardian has a nice piece today about how Donald Trump’s support is holding up there. There’s…
Donald Trump Doesn’t Have a Gender Problem. He Has Two Gender Problems.
It is conventional wisdom that Donald Trump’s support has cratered among women, especially suburban women. But is that really true? This goes through mid-October. Trump’s basic approval rating has been remarkably steady among both men and women. However, voting intentions have changed a lot—though not in the way you might think. In 2016, Trump lost…
Loser CEOs Can Never Truly Lose, Pandemic Edition
The masters of the universe can never be wrong, they can only be wronged.Kostas Lymperopoulos/CSM via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.If you win, they pay you big bucks. If you lose, they pay you big bucks: The coronavirus recession tipped dozens…