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We’re Hiring A Senior Editor For Interactives
[ad_1] FiveThirtyEight is seeking a thoughtful, energetic and ambitious Senior Editor for Interactives to help lead our interactive and visual journalism. Under the direction of the Deputy Editor, who heads the Interactives and Graphics team, the Senior Editor for Interactives will manage a subset of the Interactives team and its projects. This is a high-impact,…
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We’ve Revamped Our Polling Tracker!
[ad_1] If there’s one thing you know about FiveThirtyEight, it’s that we love polls. But, contrary to popular belief, we don’t usually conduct polls ourselves — we just collect and analyze them. And all the polls we publish can be found in one place: our polling tracker, which we’ve just revamped in preparation for the…
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Why Are White Liberals So Pessimistic About Politics?
[ad_1] No one seems happy about politics these days. A new survey conducted by the American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life, which I lead, found that less than half the American public felt optimistic about the country’s future. But there is a fairly stark divide among Americans on this question, with white Americans…
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How States Are Spending Their Stimulus Checks
[ad_1] In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses the best way to poll how satisfied Americans are with both their own lives and the direction of the country. They also talk about what states are doing with their billions in excess pandemic relief funding and look into opinion polling on the…
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Politics Podcast: What Can A Pollster Really Tell Us About American Happiness?
[ad_1] At the height of the pandemic, state officials warned that their governments would need billions of dollars of support to keep their budgets afloat. The federal government responded with huge spending bills, and now states have billions and billions to spend on their politicians’ top priorities — but they’re not all spending the money…
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Democrats Have Been Souring On Biden Since Last Summer
[ad_1] In a moment of deep political gloom, having faith in any politician might feel like a dangerous game. But starting with President Biden’s victory in the 2020 election and continuing into his first months in office, polls showed that Democrats were starting to feel more hopeful. Vaccinations for COVID-19 began to roll out en…
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Confidence Interval: Will Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Motivate Republican Voters More Than Democrats?
[ad_1] It’s time for another episode of Confidence Interval, where we share a hot take we’ve been hearing … and then reveal how confident we really feel about the idea. This time, politics reporter Alex Samuels examines why President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee might motivate Republican voters more than Democrat voters in the upcoming midterms.…
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COVID-19 Isn’t Going Anywhere — And Americans Know It
[ad_1] The idea that Americans are tired of the pandemic has become conventional wisdom, with important policy implications. Democratic governors in blue states like New Jersey and California have rolled back mask mandates, citing the importance of “normalcy.” But is “normal” what Americans really expect? And what does “normal” even mean, anyway? A recent Monmouth…
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Why The US And UK Treat Political Scandals Differently
[ad_1] In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, hosts of the British “Talking Politics” podcast, David Runciman and Helen Thompson, discuss why the British public and some members of the Conservative Party have soured on Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a way that Republicans never did toward President Trump. [ad_2]
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Politics Podcast: Is Boris Johnson Finished?
[ad_1] In recent months, news reports in the UK revealed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson attended parties in government buildings while Britain was in strict COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. In part because of that his approval rating has now sunk to a mere 22 percent and it’s unclear if he’ll hang on to his leadership…