This work examines issues surrounding the upcoming US elections. Issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, vote-in-mail, election interference and racial tensions. This article argues that most elections are fraught with threats and challenges. Thus, in this period of uncertainty with COVID-19,...

One of the most widely discussed phenomena in American politics today is the perceived increasing partisan divide that splits the U.S. electorate. A central contested question is whether this diagnosis is actually true, and if so, what is the underlying cause. We develop a model that relates the...