Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced that he’s directing three House c...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-oppose-biden-impeachment-house-republicans/
The second Republican presidential primary debate is less than two weeks away, so time is running out for GOP contenders to meet the Republican National Committee’s qualification criteria. To m...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/second-gop-debate-smaller-trump/
On Wednesday, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced he would not run for reelection in 2024. On the surface, the electoral impact of Romney’s decision is minimal — his seat should stay safely in Re...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mitt-romney-retire-senate-moderate-republican/
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, senior elections analyst): For a long time, the economy has been seen as a b...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/improving-economy-help-biden-2024/
Among the most politically tuned-in, last week saw the kind of hand-wringing and accusations of bias surrounding the polls that you’d usually expect from the final two months of a campaign, not...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/why-biden-is-losing-support-among-voters-of-color/
Among the most politically tuned-in, last week saw the kind of hand-wringing and accusations of bias surrounding the polls that you’d usually expect from the final two months of a campaign, not...
In his presidential campaign, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pitched himself as a transformational leader who has reshaped the politics of his home state. His 2022 reelection by 19 percentage poin...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ron-desantis-probably-didnt-turn-florida-red/
Presidents are getting older and older. Former President Donald Trump was the oldest person to assume office when he was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017, and President Biden broke that record four year...
Now that we are on the other side of Labor Day and summer is subsiding, this is — as tradition goes — when focus on political campaigns really begins to heat up. The off-year elections this N...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/should-we-trust-polls-campaigns-leak-to-the-press/
Now that we are on the other side of Labor Day and summer is subsiding, this is — as tradition goes — when focus on political campaigns really begins to heat up. The off-year elections this N...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-is-donald-trump-the-inevitable-gop-nominee/
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. ameliatd (Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, senior reporter): The residents of states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsi...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-are-the-swing-states-of-the-future/
Usually, Labor Day is considered the traditional start of campaign season — but here in 2023, it marks the end of the competitive phase of two heated special elections. Neither Rhode Island’s...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/special-elections-rhode-island-utah/
At last week’s Republican debate, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy arguably made the biggest splash of any candidate. Sharing center stage with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the entrepreneur spoke more...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/vivek-ramaswamy-is-climbing-where-can-he-go/
FiveThirtyEight is looking for a savvy Visual Journalist to cover U.S. politics and elections. The ideal candidate will be eager to contribute in a number of capacities — through daily graphics...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/job-posting-visual-journalist/
Once more, with feeling: It has been a couple of weeks since former President Donald Trump’s latest indictment (this time in Georgia, in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 electio...
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. maya (Maya Sweedler, senior editor): The first Republican debate last Wednesday featured eight candidat...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/will-trump-regret-skipping-the-gop-debates/
Is the 2024 Republican presidential primary already over? If you just look at the polls, you’d be forgiven for thinking so. Consider the state of the states: Several polls published last week s...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-chances-to-win-republican-primary/
This is a special end-of-meteorological-summer installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. Galen Druke speaks with pollsters Kristen Soltis Anderson and David Byler in an episode made en...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-good-or-bad-use-of-polling-extended-cut/
When Congress voted in May to restart student loan payments this fall — and then the Supreme Court overturned President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan in June — Alexa Goins and her h...
The crew discusses their takeaways from the first Republican presidential primary debate in this late-night edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. You can listen to the episode by click...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-lessons-from-a-trump-less-debate/