How well your state is doing is largely based on whether the governor is a Republican, or Democrat.
A new study finds that the single factor that best explains the speed of state-level reaction is its governor’s partisan identity. “States with Republican governors and Republican electorates delayed each social distancing measure by an average of 2.70 days,” the authors find, “a far larger effect than any other factor, including state income per capita, the percentage of neighboring states with mandates, or even confirmed cases in state.”
Akaj
April 1, 2020, 1:32pm
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I wonder if all this visibility makes Whitmer a more likely VP candidate. People need to see governors calling Trump on his miserable (lack of) leadership.