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Selected links from the November 8, 2024, edition of Opinion Today

Nov 08, 2024

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Americans see immigration as top issue for Trump to tackle, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Jason Lange, Reuters
Americans see immigration as the most pressing issue for President-elect Donald Trump to address, and a large majority believe he will order mass deportations of people living in the U.S. illegally, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed Thursday found.

Political Fundamentals Foreshadowed Trump Victory
Megan Brenan, Jeffrey M. Jones and Lydia Saad, Gallup

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Thoughts + resources on understanding the 2024 election
Alexander Agadjanian

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What Swayed Trump Voters Was Bidenomics
Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic

What Kamala Harris changed – and what she couldn’t
Danny Hayes (George Washington U.), Good Authority

Americans hate inflation more than they hate unemployment
Noah Smith, Noahpinion

Why Democrats couldn’t sell a strong economy, in 3 charts
Nicole Narea, Vox

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The Shattering of the Democratic Coalition
Ruy Teixeira, The Liberal Patriot

Breaking down the election results
Jed Kolko, Slow Boring

America's diploma divide: States with fewer grads went for Trump
Erica Pandey, Axios

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How Could Trump and Abortion Rights Both Win?
Jill Filipovic, New York Times [unlocked]

2024 Election Edition: Young Men Swing Toward Trump
Daniel Cox, American Storylines

Trump’s Huge Latino Gains Put a Big Crack in Democratic Coalition
David Luhnow, Caitlin Ostroff and Juan Forero, Wall Street Journal [unlocked]

Lot of votes left to count — but the scale of the shift is clear
Philip Bump, Washington Post

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For Black Women, ‘America Has Revealed to Us Her True Self’
Erica L. Green and Maya King, New York Times [unlocked]

Is the Gen Z bro media diet to blame?
Rebecca Jennings, Vox

Will Trump Govern as a Strongman?
Steven Feldstein, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 

After 248 years, America prepares for life under a king
Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer [unlocked]

What Happens Next?
Don Moynihan, Can We Still Govern?

Leaders in Democratic States Begin Planning to Fight Trump Policies
Shawn Hubler, Jonathan Weisman and Mike Baker, New York Times [unlocked]

Trump Got Away With It — Because of the Biden Administration’s Massive Missteps
Ankush Khardori, Politico Magazine

Pollsters Were Blindsided by Breadth of Trump Win
Aaron Zitner, Wall Street Journal [unlocked]

America's last presidential bellwether ends its winning streak
Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times [via Yahoo]

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Republican Pollster Patrick Ruffini on the Increasingly Multi-Racial GOP Coalition
Pro Politics with Zac McCrary

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Called It!
Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen

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Election Post-Mortem
Hacks On Tap

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How race and gender played a role in the 2024 election
ABC News