2020 Election

• 
• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/3/2020
  

  15 States Have Postponed Their Primaries Because of Coronavirus. Here’s a List.

  Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wyoming and Puerto Rico have rescheduled their contests.

• 
• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/30/2020
  

  Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  American life has been suddenly and dramatically upended, and, when things are turned upside down, the bottom is brought to the surface and exposed to the light.

• 
• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  3/30/2020
  

  Odds of a Contested November Election Are on the Rise

  Now that state-run electoral systems are in chaos in the midst of a pandemic, with no assurances the conditions for normal voting behavior will return by November, the odds of a contested general election (not just by Trump, but by elements of both parties) have gone up.

• 
• SOURCE: Salon
  3/27/2020
  

  Political Prophet Allan Lichtman: Trump is More Likely to Lose Because of Coronavirus

  Allan Lichtman has a record of predicting presidential elections — and he thinks pandemic could doom Trump.

• 
• 3/27/2020
  

  A Word to My Fellow Progressives: Lessons of the 2020 Democratic Primary

  by Andrew Meyer

  This year feels to many progressives like a lost opportunity. With Joseph Biden seemingly certain to win the Democratic nomiatuion, what can progressives learn and apply to the future from the experience of 2020?

• 
• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/27/2020
  

  Why Politicians Can’t Stop Talking About “Folks”

  by John Patrick Leary

  Most politicians are playacting: a privileged cohort of other-than-real Americans desperately trying to convince a mass following that they are, indeed, just plain folks.

• 
• SOURCE: Politico
  3/27/2020
  

  Inside Joe Biden’s Coronavirus Bunker

  The Biden campaign is looking to history, specifically the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, for campaign strategy.

• 
• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/21/2020
  

  The Lessons of the Elections of 1918

  A nation ravaged by the Spanish flu figured out how to vote back then. Not without incident, but with democracy intact.

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  Campaign Signals Sanders May Be Open To Exit

  New signs emerged of communication between the two camps as some Democrats hoped for a swift end to a bruising primary.

• 
• SOURCE: GEN
  3/18/2020
  

  The Generational Dispute Over the ‘Safe’ Choice for President

  by David Walsh

  Millennials and Generation Z may have more in common with their grandparents and great-grandparents than their parents.

• 
• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/16/2020
  

  Pete Buttigieg’s Coded Language Shows the Limits and Promise of LGBTQ Progress

  by Nathaniel Frank

  Research shows that it’s not just political candidates who continue to feel they have to hide their true selves to reach their full potential, as even the openly gay presidential candidate apparently did.

• 
• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/14/2020
  

  Why Sanders Isn’t Winning Over Black Voters

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  For millions, even when government “works” it is not working for them.

• 
• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/16/2020
  

  Did America Misjudge Bernie Sanders? Or Did He Misjudge America?

  by Robert Draper

  Throughout his insurgent campaign, he remained steadfast in his radical vision—and forced a reckoning for the Democratic Party.

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/15/2020
  

  Winners and Losers from the Bernie Sanders-Joe Biden Debate

  Biden drove home the point that he would be a steady, pragmatic hand at an uncertain time.

• 
• SOURCE: Politico
  

  Bye Bye Bernie

  According to our experts, Bernie Sanders may not have won the debate, or the 2020 Democratic primary. But he changed his party, and Joe Biden, for the better.

• 
• 3/15/2020
  

  Historians on Bernie and Biden's Head to Head Debate

  What do historians think about the first one on one Democratic debate?

• 
• SOURCE: Politico
  3/15/2020
  

  Sanders Bets on Biden Debate Implosion

  His rivals have been waiting for more than a year for Biden to wilt under pressure. Sunday’s debate looks like Sanders’ last hope.

• 
• 3/15/2020
  

  Do We Want the Progressive Sanders or the Pragmatist Biden?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Because his pragmatic style matches more the American tradition, Biden has a better chance of unifying our nation and delivering positive long-range results.

• 
• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/11/2020
  

  Behind Bernie Sanders’s Decision to Stay in the Race

  Senator Sanders listed a series of policy items in what could be seen as a wish list of concessions he would want.

• 
• SOURCE: NPR
  3/11/2020
  

  The Democratic Nomination Is Now In View For Joe Biden — And 5 Other Takeaways

  The results have now, barring something catastrophic for Biden, put him on a path to being the Democratic nominee and the candidate to take on President Trump in the fall