Dear Readers: Just like President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris has had a challenging first year in office. Her approval rating, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight’s polling average, is in the low 40s, just like Biden’s, and she has attracted negative headlines for both some uninspiring public performances as well as...
Author: Thurgood Marshall Jr. and Steven Okun
The Pandemic’s Potential to Create a Lost Generation of Voters
And change November’s results
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE -- College students are a key voting bloc whose participation in this year’s election may be blunted by the public health crisis. -- Major efforts are needed to ensure that students know how to vote, make sure their vote is counted. Time is now to...
Congress Needs to Start Thinking About COVID-19 and the Presidential Election — Now
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE -- The spread of COVID-19 has already begun disrupting plans across the world. Congress must begin thinking about how it could potentially disrupt the upcoming presidential election. -- Measures taken to prevent the spread of disease could come into conflict with voting. -- The closer...
Impact of multiple recounts could go beyond borders
Almost everyone fervently hopes that the presidential election result is decisive, whichever way it goes. Few who went through the "overtime" election of 2000 would ever wish that on America again. But wishing may not make it so. Two politically experienced attorneys, Steven Okun and Thurgood Marshall, Jr., give us...