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[FiveThirtyEight]( Popular in Politics Thursday, March, 21, 2024 [1. How IVF and abortion access could shape the 2024 election]( [How IVF and abortion access could shape the 2024 election]( Welcome to Pollapalooza, our occasional polling column. [Read more]( [2. How worried should Democrats be about the polls?]( [How worried should Democrats be about the polls?]( The presidential candidates are trying to crowd us out of the polling analysis business with their own takes on the polls! In this installment of the 538 Politics podcast, the crew assesses whether President Joe Biden's dismissal of polls because of declining response rates is fair. [Read more]( [3. Have your student loans been forgiven? We want to hear from you.]( [Have your student loans been forgiven? We want to hear from you.]( Since the Supreme Court [scuttled President Joe Biden's broad student forgiveness]( plan last summer, his administration has [rolled out smaller, more targeted forgiveness]( that has wiped out the debts of some borrowers through existing loan forgiveness programs. The administration has said it is [mostly correcting errors]( in these existing programs, and the effort has flown under the radar relative to the much bigger plan that was killed. But ultimately, the administration has canceled nearly $140 billion in federal student loan debt. [Read more]( [4. No one is coming to save us from a 2020 rematch]( [No one is coming to save us from a 2020 rematch]( Charles Riggs has a habit of backing losers: John Lindsay in '72; Michael Dukakis in '88; Ross Perot in '96. It wasn't until he went all in on former President Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries that he got a taste of victory (after his first pick, John Edwards, dropped out, naturally). "For the first time in my life, at the tender young age of 54, my candidate for president finally won," Riggs said. [Read more]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe](