A majority of stock market strategists polled by electionsobserver expect Democratic candidate Joe Biden to win the U.S. presidential race — but they’re significantly split on what the election would mean for stocks. Fourteen of 20 strategists surveyed by electionsobserver picked a Biden victory over Donald Trump. Half of the 20 strategists expect the S&P […] Read more
Incumbent Andrzej Duda won the first round of Sunday’s presidential election – but his main rival, Rafal Trzaskowski, polled well enough to ensure a close second round in two weeks. Incumbent Polish President Andrzej Duda visits Torun. Photo: EPA-EFE/Tytus Zmijewski. Poland’s electoral commission on Monday said the incumbent President, Andrzej Duda, won 43.6 per cent of […] Read more
President Donald Trump on Thursday launched his most direct attacks to date on the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice. Trump, seizing on a quote by a man who runs a fringe Black Lives Matter knock-off group, and a chant that is not popular with protesters, suggested in tweets that the loosely organized […] Read more
The kickoff to election season 2020 is here after as hectic a buildup ever seen in the Empire State. Starting in January 2019, the New York Legislature has passed bill after bill expanding access to voting, resulting in once-in-a-generation reform and consolidation of state Board of Elections policy. “It has been challenging working with all […] Read more
President Trump is in a political hole and has a lot of ground to make up over the next five months if he hopes to win another term, an NPR analysis of the Electoral College map finds. Given his handling of the coronavirus and protests over racism and police brutality in the first six months […] Read more
Black voters in swing states, hit harder by the coronavirus than other racial groups, worry most about the ongoing health and economic crises created by the pandemic. Black respondents in the key 2020 states of Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are more likely than white voters to have been diagnosed with the […] Read more
Erica Friedle had not missed a vote in seven years. Then came the coronavirus pandemic. She didn’t receive her absentee ballot for April’s Wisconsin presidential primary. And now she fears that a lack of preparation by state officials and the continued threat of the disease might force her to sit out the upcoming November election in […] Read more
The economy is a key 2020 election issue The economy is a key issue for independent voters, with theelectionsobserver.com survey finding 48% citing the economy as a top issue they will vote on in 2020. But the roughly one-third of independents who already lean Democratic — an assumption based on existing national polling — can be […] Read more
Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang said that if he is elected to serve in the White House, he is prepared to empower the consumer to kickstart the economy if it slips into a recession. Yang told Elections Observer’s Deirdre Bosa that he “would start putting more economic buying power into people’s hands so that we […] Read more
Iowa poll: Likely Democratic caucusgoers are fired up by the election but also exhausted by politics
Majorities of likely Democratic caucusgoers say they’re optimistic, fired up, feminists and … exhausted by politics. A new poll from CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom finds fewer soon-to-be caucus attendees consider themselves socialists than capitalists, and almost a quarter are regular Twitter users. Three-in-five likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers say they’re fired up, especially those who are very […] Read more
