The Intelligence: America’s deeply divided electorate
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We have combined polling data to make a detailed portrait of the American electorate. Have a tinker with our interactive model: plug in their age, sex, religion, and more, and let us estimate how your hypothetical voter will vote in the presidential election. Allegations of extortion at the Rafah crossing out of Gaza (09:57). And, a tribute to an heiress-turned-IRA bombmaker (20:17).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, |
| 0:14.7 | Ora Ogunbei. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:20.4 | shaping your world. |
| 0:29.0 | Getting out of Gaza was hard enough before October 7. Now, with only one crossing left open, it's harder still. We follow the journey of one man who's just |
| 0:36.6 | about made it, but at what cost? And we reflect on the life of Rose Dugdale, who went from being an heiress to making |
| 0:47.8 | DIY bombs for the IRA out of milk churns and digestive biscuits. But first. |
| 1:10.0 | It's been a week of |
| 1:09.0 | It's been a week of full-blooded electioneering in America. |
| 1:13.7 | Like Ronald Reagan, I am strongly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother. |
| 1:21.0 | You must follow your heart of the... |
| 1:22.0 | On Monday, Donald Trump made a play for more |
| 1:24.9 | centrist American voters by softening his stance on abortion. A day later, Republican |
| 1:32.4 | lawmakers in Arizona revived a piece of pre-civil war era legislation |
| 1:38.0 | that banned almost all abortions in the state. |
| 1:41.0 | Went into law before Arizona was a state, before Abraham Lincoln was reelected. |
| 1:47.0 | There were 6,500 people living in Arizona when this happened. |
| 1:51.2 | And the Biden campaign is hammering Donald Trump on this. |
| 1:54.0 | It was in the eyes of many a gift for the Joe Biden campaign which quickly went on the |
| 1:59.9 | offensive. The question is if Donald Trump gets back in power, what freedom will |
| 2:05.8 | you lose next? Your body and your decisions belong to you, not the government, not |
| 2:12.3 | Donald Trump. |
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