This is not a polling story. It’s critical I state that fact right up front, because if you’ve practiced any sort of self-care over the past few torturous months of this election, it’s been to scroll past polling analysis about the presidential race like it’s a pop-up ad for foot cream or adult diapers. Each new data point attributed to a target population contradicts the last one.
Latino voters are gravitating toward former President Trump, or are they? White suburbanites are breaking for Vice President Kamala Harris, or not. As for Black voters, the expectation is that Harris has them in the bag, but wait, does she? Click on this new stomach-turning poll to find out. And what’s the point, when the upshot always seems to be the same: We have no idea if the race really is this tight, but we’d like to panic you anyway.
If there is an entertaining upside to the barrage of nerve-jangling graphs and exhaustive explainers, it’s the obsession pundits, analysts and the news media in general have with the habits of a creature they find infinitely fascinating, the American male voter. You could fill Madison Square Garden and the Ellipse with the number of stories focused on where male energy is amassing in this election. How will young men vote? What about men’s economic concerns? Trump is gaining support among men of color , say some polls.
On the other hand, Harris may be gaining ground with Black men ...
while she’s losing with Latino men . To fully understand thi.
