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Dec 14 2020
News
CNN Ratings Surge as Network Boss’s Fate Is Uncertain
CNN is riding a ratings high in the aftermath of the election. Whether the network boss who oversaw those gains will stick around is an open question.
CNN averaged more total-day viewers than Fox News since Election Day through Dec. 8, a 35 day span, the first time it has won such a long stretch in that category in 19 years. CNN also bested the competition over that period among viewers
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 12 2021
Analysis
Why Biden’s approval rating isn’t recovering
President Joe Biden’s honeymoon period came to an end this summer, due, in part, to the rise of the delta variant and a chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan. But even as new reported COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations fall and attention on Afghanistan fades, his approval rating hasn’t bounced back.
Though Biden was popular during his early months in office, in July, his approval rating
Deseret NewsJun 19 2012
News
What Obama’s Immigration Decision Might Mean for 2012
Even in an era where partisanship is on the rise, demographic changes exert a gravitational pull on policy and politics and are occasionally enough to overcome political divisions. What is more remarkable than President Obamas decision on Friday to suspend deportations of some illegal immigrants is Republicans relatively passive reaction to it.
New York Times (News)Mar 13 2015
News
The end of white Christian America is nigh: Why the country’s youth are abandoning religious conservatism
here’s been a lot of media attention recently to the changing demographics of the United States, where, at current rates, people who identify as “white” are expected to become a minority by the year 2050. But in many ways, the shift in national demographics has been accelerated beyond even that. New data from the American Values Atlas shows that while white people continue to be the majority
SalonSep 21 2020
News
How Latino voters could swing the presidential election
White suburbanites have been at the center of discussion for most of the presidential campaign. Joe Biden’s ability, or lack thereof, to cut into President Trump’s support among suburban swing voters will be what ultimately decides the election, many experts believe.
While there’s truth to that view, the focus has shifted recently to another demographic group that may play just as big a
Yahoo! The 360Nov 14 2020
Analysis
Biden changed the electoral map, but can Democrats capitalize in the future?
The final projections for the 2020 election brought with them a new electoral map, one that highlights the changing shape of America and the divisions that now define the Democratic and Republican parties in the Trump era. President-elect Joe Biden took back three Northern states — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — that President Trump carried in 2016. He also scored important
Washington PostNov 01 2019
News
98% of Hispanics and Latinos do not identify as 'Latinx'
A new survey found that 98% of Americans of Latin American descent prefer terms other than "Latinx" to describe themselves.
The poll, conducted by researchers at the Hispanic market research company, ThinkNow, revealed that 44% of people of Latin American descent prefer the term "Hispanic" and 24% prefer the term "Latino" or "Latina," while another 11% wanted to be referred to by their
Washington ExaminerNov 02 2020
Data
Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Numerous polls suggest that COVID-19 is a profoundly partisan issue in the United States. Using the geotracking data of 15 million smartphones per day, we found that US counties that voted for Donald Trump (Republican) over Hillary Clinton (Democrat) in the 2016 presidential election exhibited 14% less physical distancing between March and May 2020. Partisanship was more strongly associated
Nature.comDec 05 2021
Opinion
Immigration Isn’t the Issue — National Identity Is
Among the species that populate the American political marshland, we are paying too much attention to the youngest. Pollsters were first sighted at the end of the previous century, but this non-native kind has since proliferated. Earlier this year, when the journalists (indigenous animals, by comparison) turned to the focusing event at the southern border that is still occurring, Echelon
The American SpectatorOct 07 2019
News
New study says tanning salons could be targeting gay men and giving them cancer
A new study says that tanning salons, which are apparently more concentrated in neighborhoods with high numbers of male gay couples, could be targeting their gay male demographic and giving them cancer.
Researchers at Stanford University's School of Medicine found that tanning salons were twice as likely to be located within one mile of neighborhoods with higher gay population
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