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Kamala Harris Will Win the Popular Vote

Michael Podhorzer Weekend Reading
Sadly, the same cannot be said with confidence for the Electoral College battleground states. Harris needs the kind of high turnout from contingent new voters that pushed Biden over the top (barely) in those states.

Banlieue Vote Pivotal in French Left’s Upset

Amba Guerguerian The Indypendent
Voters from Paris’s marginalized immigrant communities turned out in large numbers to vote for leftist coalition that championed wealth redistribution and Palestinian statehood.

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Building Worker Power

Daniel Judt The Forge
Worker Power is a new political organization with deep roots in the work of UNITE HERE Local 11, the hospitality workers local in Southern California & Arizona. They are bringing union organizing tactics to door-knocking and political power building.

Initial Analysis of 2020 Exit Polls

Bob Wing Organizing Upgrade
Here are the highlights of a preliminary analysis of the only national exit poll for the 2020 Elections, available on all major news and political websites.

The Other Swing Voter

Ibram X. Kendi The Atlantic
No one’s paying much attention to one chunk of the electorate that could prove decisive in 2020. To recognize the other swing voter is to decenter the white moderate in the body politic—where she and especially he has been positioned.

The End of the Voter-Consumer

Jesse A. Myerson The New Republic
The work of organizing a politically legible coalition of nonvoters is functionally the same as what’s needed for the left to win elections.
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