Nate Silver's 2016 Presidential Election Forecast
Nate Silver, a statistician and the founder and editor in chief of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight, discusses his first forecast for the 2016 presidential election.Trump chances of Making America Great Again...
View ArticleAt the RNC, The Color of the Revolution Was Day-Glo Green
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.It was a Republican National Convention (RNC) for the ages — an event that included plagiarism, humiliation from former candidates, references to...
View ArticlePolling & Democracy: An Uneasy Relationship
Back in December, with our election season partners, FiveThirtyEight, we issued a Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Election Polls Edition. It was directed towards primary election coverage, but some...
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Brooks and Dionne on the GOP’s dilemma and the role of ‘common decency’ in...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And now back to the world of politics, and to the analysis of Brooks and Dionne. That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post...
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New poll numbers show tightening presidential race, but Clinton has easier path
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now we return to politics and a tightening race for president, both across the nation and in key battleground states.New polls indicate Hillary Clinton...
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Shields and Brooks on high stakes for debate moderators, a dead heat in the...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But, first: the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That’s syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.Welcome to you both....
View Article52 Days Until the Election: What's Up With The Polls?
Click on the 'Listen' button to hear the interview.“This was an ailment that many people just power through and that's what I thought I'd do as well. I didn't want to stop. I didn't want to quit...
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Shields and Brooks on Trump’s ‘birther’ lie, Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ effect
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Next, to the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That’s syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.Welcome back,...
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Gary Johnson on the rules keeping him off the debate stage
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Only five days until the first presidential debate, but Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson won’t be on that stage, after saying it was his only path to...
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Ryan won’t campaign for Trump; Clinton widens lead in polls
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Twenty-nine days to go until the election, it’s the day after debate number two, and Donald Trump is scrambling to save his presidential bid.But the...
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Obama calls out Trump on rigged election claims
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: It’s three weeks to go until Election Day, just 24 hours until the last presidential debate, and charges of vote fraud and media bias are swirling.Today,...
View Article30 Issues | Week 28 Recap: Whose Vote Will Count in 2016?
Catch up on what we learned during Week 28 of #30 Issues...Hit "play" above to hear the many ways in which voters are disenfranchised in America, and we review the history.You'll hear:A History of...
View ArticleThe Myth of Voter Fraud
Donald Trump is only the latest in a line of American politicians to claim that an election can be stolen, specifically by voters who commit fraud at the polls. But despite the depictions of voters...
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Trump’s ‘nasty woman’ remark adds to woes with female voters
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks as Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens during their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate at UNLV in Las...
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Trump team says ‘we are behind’ but can still win the race
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the third and final debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (not pictured) at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Joe...
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How Clinton and Trump are strategizing with two weeks to go
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: With just over two weeks until Election Day, we turn now to our Politics Monday duo, Tamara Keith of NPR and Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report. She...
View ArticleForecasting the Future, from Politics to Global Events
Despite all of their experience, experts specializing in predicting future trends and events often do quite poorly... about as well as random guessing. But some with little or no expertise do extremely...
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What pollsters are predicting for Election Day
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: We dig in now to the numbers in the race for the White House, with most national and battleground state polls showing Hillary Clinton ahead.As the number...
View ArticleDevelopments in Garner Case; Ta-Nehisi Coates; (Unofficial) Early Voting...
Coming up on today's show:Alan Feuer, New York Times metro desk reporter, discusses how the inquiry into civil rights violations against the NYPD officer responsible for Eric Garner’s death has caused...
View ArticleAn (Unofficial) Early Voting Poll
Steve Shepard, chief polling analyst at POLITICO, talks about early voting statistics and listeners who have already cast their ballots call in.
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