2020 US Election
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9 Best Articles in 2020
The New York Times
Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance
The New York Times
1255 saves · Sep 27th · The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.
The Atlantic
How the Pandemic Defeated America
The Atlantic
688 saves · Aug 3rd · Ed Yong · A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
The Atlantic
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
The Atlantic
643 saves · Feb 6th · How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
The Atlantic
The Election That Could Break America
The Atlantic
605 saves · Sep 23rd · Barton Gellman · If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
FiveThirtyEight
2020 Election Forecast
FiveThirtyEight
~14 min read · 415 saves · Aug 12th · Latest forecast of the 2020 presidential election between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden by Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight
The New York Times
Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Buy It.
The New York Times
9 min read · 284 saves · Oct 25th · Ben Smith · Inside the White House’s secret, last-ditch effort to change the narrative, and the election — and the return of the media gatekeepers.
electproject.github.io
2020 General Election Early Vote Statistics
electproject.github.io
2 min read · 264 saves · Sep 4th · Michael McDonald Professor, University of Florida Web: United States Elections Project Twitter: @ElectProject Last updated: 09/04/2020 02:08 PM Eastern Time There are a total of 13,941,285 ballot…
The Atlantic
Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy
The Atlantic
262 saves · Nov 16th · Jeffrey Goldberg · In an exclusive interview, the former president identifies the greatest threats to the American experiment, explains why he’s still hopeful, and opens up about his new book.
The New York Times
What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?
The New York Times
7 min read · 257 saves · Aug 27th · Kevin Roose · Right-wing influencers are dominating the political discussion on Facebook, raising questions about whether it will translate into electoral success in November.
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Polls & forecasts
FiveThirtyEight
2020 Election Forecast
FiveThirtyEight
~14 min read · 415 saves · Aug 12th · Latest forecast of the 2020 presidential election between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden by Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight
How To Read 2020 Polls Like A Pro
FiveThirtyEight
5 min read · 53 saves · Jun 15th · Nathaniel Rakich · We’re about to enter the thick of general-election season, which means we’re about to get a boatload of polls. Problem is, it can be hard to know which polls to…
The Economist
Forecasting the US 2020 elections
The Economist
171 saves · Jun 11th · Right now, our model thinks Joe Biden is likely to beat Donald Trump in the electoral college
Financial Times
Trump vs Biden: US presidential election poll tracker
Financial Times
1 min read · 75 saves · Jun 23rd · The latest state-by-state polling data and interactive electoral college calculator
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New York Magazine
The Full(est Possible) Story of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Press Conference
New York Magazine
20+ min read · 126 saves · Dec 21st · A six-week, 37-source search for answers.
TIME
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Are TIME's 2020 Person of the Year
TIME
20+ min read · 115 saves · Dec 11th · Together, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris offered restoration and renewal in a single ticket. And America bought what they were selling
XKCD Comic
2020 Election Map
XKCD Comic
78 saves · Dec 16th · This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details.
The New York Times
Immigrant Neighborhoods Shifted Red as the Country Chose Blue
The New York Times
~13 min read · 53 saves · Dec 21st · These maps show how areas with Latino and Asian residents shifted the vote in a way that may scramble the future of electoral politics, according to a New York Times analysis of 28,000 precincts.
The New York Times
Opinion | Why Do So Many Americans Think the Election Was Stolen?
The New York Times
9 min read · 48 saves · Dec 5th · Ross Douthat · Looking for the reasons behind a seemingly unreasonable belief.
The Atlantic
A Political Obituary for Donald Trump
The Atlantic
7 min read · 45 saves · Dec 9th · George Packer · The effects of his reign will linger. But democracy survived.
FiveThirtyEight
A Record-Breaking Number Of Women Will Be In Biden’s Cabinet
FiveThirtyEight
5 min read · 44 saves · Dec 15th · And why a few positions are still held exclusively by men.
The Atlantic
How Biden Should Investigate Trump
The Atlantic
~18 min read · 40 saves · Dec 9th · James Fallows · The misdeeds and destructive acts are legion. The new president should focus on these three.
CNN
'It's turned crazy': Inside the scramble for Trump pardons
CNN
6 min read · 36 saves · Dec 16th · President Donald Trump may not be willing to accept his term is ending, but as the clock ticks down on his time in office, hundreds of his allies -- including some of his closest business associates…
The Atlantic
13 Things Trump Got Right
The Atlantic
10 min read · 35 saves · Dec 18th · David Frum · Nobody does nothing as president, not even someone who watches television for five or six hours a day.
