Opinion Today: Topline
Selected links from the November 12, 2024, edition of Opinion Today
We asked Americans what they’d heard about Trump and Harris throughout the campaign. Here’s what they told us Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Americans heard starkly different messages about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the final days of the 2024 election, according to The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracked what average Americans actually heard, read and saw about the presidential nominees throughout the general election campaign. In the final pre-election survey, fielded from November 1 through 4, the single word most associated with Trump’s winning campaign was “garbage.”
Before U.S. election, most Americans and Germans had a positive view of relations between their countries Pew Research Center
The common national experience that explains Trump’s 2024 gains Ronald Brownstein, CNN Economy or Culture Wars? Our Writers Spar Over Why Harris Lost Wall Street Journal [unlocked]
What Democrats miss in debating Harris’ loss Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins), Good Authority Democrats Could Have Won. Our Excuses Mask a Devastating Reality. John Della Volpe (Harvard Kennedy School), New York Times [unlocked] The election was a Trump splash — but not a red wave Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post [unlocked] What White Christians Have Wrought Robert P. Jones (PRRI), Time How Democrats won Senate seats in states that Trump carried Geoffrey Skelley, 538 Three Questions About the Election, Including “How Did Harris Do So Well?” Claude Fischer, Made in America The Democrats’ Senate Nightmare Is Only Beginning Daniel Block, The Atlantic [unlocked] The blue cities must be fixed Noah Smith, Noahpinion Democrats kept calling Trump a fascist, but these Pennsylvania voters thought he could help them pay the bills Julia Terruso, Philadelphia Inquirer [unlocked]
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The Best And Worst Post-Election Hot Takes
538 PoliticsAnalyzing women's votes in the 2024 election and beyond
CBS NewsTamara Keith and Amy Walter on how Democrats are reacting to election losses
PBS NewsHour