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Why the Voting-by-Mail Fight May Be a Sideshow The Republican-controlled Georgia state senate voted on March 8 to kill the no-excuse voting by mail that a previous Republican-controlled legislature put on the books way back in 2005. But something interesting happened along the way: This change has been opposed by several top Republicans in the state, and Governor Brian Kemp is not onboard either. Maybe these hard-boiled Georgia Republicans understand that the bipartisan belief that liberalized voting by mail cost Trump their state and ultimately the White House is far from clearly supported b...

A new study finds the expansion of mail voting did not benefit Democrats or increase turnout

Study: No partisan benefit from mail voting in 2020 election Nicholas Riccardi Tags:  Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2020, file photo, envelopes containing ballots are shown at a San Francisco Department of Elections at a voting center in San Francisco. A new study finds the expansion of mail voting did not benefit Democrats or increase turnout. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Donald Trump last year publicly worried that the explosion in voting by mail during the pandemic would increase turnout so much that “you'd never have a Republican elected ...

Assessing the Impact of Absentee Voting on Turnout and Democratic Vote Margin in 2020 A Commentary By Alan I. Abramowitz Thursday, February 25, 2021 KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — While the 2020 presidential election saw a record volume of absentee votes cast, not all states made it equally accessible. — Eased absentee voting rules contributed to higher voter participation rates. — With higher turnout, President Joe Biden’s performance still tracked closely with Hillary Clinton’s state-by-state results in 2016 — he just performed slightly better across the board. Sign up: Free dai...

In 2008, political scientists Alan Abramowitz and Ruy Teixeira wrote a report for Brookings titled “The Decline of the White Working Class and the Rise of a Mass Upper Middle Class,” about two trends that were noticeable then and are overwhelmingly obvious now: The White working class was shrinking and moving toward the Republican Party, while the number of college-educated workers with incomes over $100,000 had grown enormously, and they were increasingly voting for Democrats. Rereading Teixeira and Abramowitz today, one is struck by their eerie prescience, but also by the fundamen...