Election

Washington Post - Polling from YouGov released this week found that 1 in 8 women said they had voted differently from their partners in the past without telling them.

AP News -  A video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia by a man who claims to be from Haiti is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors,” U.S. intelligence officials said Friday. The video in question shows someone claiming to be a Haitian immigrant talking about how he’s intending to vote multiple times in two Georgia counties for Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Philipp Heimberger -  Billionaires spend nearly $2 billion on the 2024 US presidential election (60% more than during the 2020 election). Almost three quarters of billionaire campaign spending goes to Republicans.

Axios - A handful of businesses near the White House have boarded up their windows, Axios D.C.'s Anna Spiegel reports. Most buildings in the area haven't taken such measures. But highly visible security precautions will become more common around the White House and the Capitol between now and Inauguration Day.

• For the first time, the Department of Homeland Security has designated the certification of Electoral College votes as a National Special Security Event — a status that comes with a Super Bowl or State of the Union-level security. 
  

New Republic - Europe’s Green Party is telling third-party candidate Jill Stein to step aside for the sake of America and the world.European Green Party representatives from Italy, Ireland, Spain, and 13 other countries across the continent came together to sign onto a letter asking the U.S. Green Party’s Stein to withdraw her candidacy and endorse Democrat Kamala Harris for the sake of democracy. 

Guardian -  Republicans are already laying the ground for rejecting the result of next week’s US presidential election in the event Donald Trump loses, with early lawsuits baselessly alleging fraud and polls from right-leaning groups that analysts say may be exaggerating his popularity and could be used by Trump to claim only cheating prevented him from returning to the White House.The warnings – from Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans – come as Americans prepare to vote on Tuesday in the most consequential presidential contest in generations. Most polls show Trump running neck and neck with Kamala Harris, the vice-president and Democratic nominee, with the two candidates seemingly evenly matched in seven key swing states. 

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Nice News - If you’re feeling nervous about the election, you’re in good company: More than two-thirds of U.S. adults reported the 2024 presidential election as a “significant” source of stress in an annual poll from the American Psychological Association.

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Guardian- Nationally, Harris, the Democratic nominee, has a one-point advantage, 48% to 47%, over her Republican opponent, virtually identical to last week. Such an advantage is well with the margin of error of most polls.The battleground states, too, remain in a dead heat. The candidates are evenly tied at 48% in Pennsylvania, often seen as the most important swing state because it has the most electoral votes (19). Harris has single-point leads in the two other blue-wall states, Michigan and Wisconsin, while Trump is marginally ahead in the Sun belt: up by 1% in North Carolina and 2% in Georgia and Arizona. In Nevada, his average advantage in the polls is less than a percentage point.

The latest polling has come against a backdrop of unprecedented levels of early voting in multiple states which, as of Friday, had seen about 65 million Americans already casting their ballots. It is notoriously difficult to predict anything about future results from early voting, though some 58% of early voters in Pennsylvania aged 65 or over were registered Democrats, Politico reported, compared with 35% from the same cohort who were registered Republicans; the two main parties have roughly equal numbers of registered voters in the state among older adults. About 53% of the demographic voted for Trump in Pennsylvania in 2020, even while he lost the state to Joe Biden.

Trump, in contrast with four years ago, has encouraged his supporters to cast early ballots. That Democrats are turning out in greater numbers may be a positive indicator for them in a bellwether state where commentators have predicted turnout is key to the result. Democratic strategists have claimed they have a 10%-20% lead in senior voter turnout across the three blue-wall states.

But in a fractured political landscape that has featured threats of retribution from Trump, accusations of fascism and racism from Harris, and warnings that democracy itself is on the ballot, the bigger picture – that uniformity, over a prolonged period – has seasoned observers scratching their heads.