White people in not-insignificant numbers maintain a persistent belief that they’re the ones suffering historic levels of racial discrimination.

Research shows that African Americans support candidates from marginalized groups, including LGBTQ people, more than their white counterparts.

America’s gerontocratic voters helped put the president in office, but the latest polls show their affections are shifting.

How market pressures and professional hubris have undone campaign journalism

His data journalism blog, FiveThirtyEight, is a political website with no politics—or rather, no politics beyond a mute approval of the status quo. 

Do Klobuchar, Booker, and Bennet have a shot in hell at the nomination?

The Democrat still shines in most polls, but as a Trump loss grows more likely, the former V.P.'s "electability" pitch is losing its luster.

There's a widening gap between Washington's bipartisan militarism and veterans' bipartisan war-skepticism.

Everyone knows the numbers are as unreliable as ever, and yet the political press still hypes every little rise and fall.

Data was a rare source of clarity in the 2008 and 2012 elections. In 2016, it failed catastrophically.

The only thing that needs unskewing is the media coverage of Donald Trump's chances.