Trump administration blocks states from using Medicaid to respond to coronavirus crisis – Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-13/trump-administration-blocks-states-use-medicaid-respond-coronavirus-crisis

GREAT reflexes, y’all.

«In previous emergencies, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the H1N1 flu outbreak, both Republican and Democratic administrations loosened Medicaid rules to empower states to meet surging needs.»

Panic vs. neglect

https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933843900346369?s=20

Interesting question.

Silvia Stringhini (@silviast9) Tweeted:

20/ I finish by saying that I really don’t understand this war on panic. The only reason I see is mask shortages, but there’s no mask on sale anymore. We don’t have a lot of studies, but is it panic really worse than neglect and carelessness during an epidemic of this sort?

Many young voters sat out Super Tuesday, contributing to Bernie Sanders’ losses

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/04/super-tuesday-bernie-sanders-youth-votes-fell-short-compared-2016/4947795002/

«Young voters cheer Bernie Sanders’ anti-establishment message. They turn out in throngs at his rallies. And they form the core of his grassroots efforts to win the Democratic presidential nomination.


But their fiery passion did not translate into the robust turnout he needed on Super Tuesday»

Opinion | Bernie Sanders Can’t Count on New Voters – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/opinion/bernie-sanders-2020-election.html

«About 37 percent of Democrats and independents under 35 voted in 2016. According to Broockman and Kalla’s figures, Sanders would need to get that figure up to 48 percent [11 points, for those who didn’t do the math yet — John L.]. By comparison, Broockman told me, in 2008, Barack Obama raised black turnout by about five percentage points.»