With less than a week to go until the 2020 presidential election, Americans are ready for a seemingly interminable election season to come to an end. But one thing seems increasingly certain: Election Night won’t be the end of it. From the long wait times anticipated as swing states like Pennsylvania count absentee ballots, to […]
Category: Politics
COVID-19 Cases Counts, Political Support, and Cointegration
An important new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America argues that as COVID-19 cases go up within a country, so too does support for the chief executive. As the authors write in their title “The rise of COVID-19 cases is associated with support for world […]
