Local Democrats warn party: Growing Republican wave is real

The Democrats of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, felt the red wave building over the summer when frustrated parents filled school board meetings to complain about masking requirements and an academic theory on systemic racism that wasn’t even taught in local schools. They realized the wave was growing when such concerns, fueled […] Read more »

They Voted For Trump, And Then Biden. How Do These Swing Voters See Biden Now?

Some swing voters who supported Joe Biden over Donald Trump in 2020’s election are a bit unsure now. Some are still turned off by the ex-president but also uncertain about Biden and the Democrats. Don Gonyea, NPR News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results […] Read more »

The median voter is a 50-something white person who didn’t go to college

… Back in 1992, James Carville supposedly hung a sign in Clinton campaign headquarters that said, “it’s the economy, stupid.” By the same token, Democrats today could improve their performance enormously if every staffer’s computer monitor had a Post-It stuck to it that said “the median voter is a 50-something […] Read more »

Why ‘all eyes’ will be on the Virginia suburbs this fall

Reassured by the results of California’s gubernatorial recall election last week, Democrats now face tougher electoral tests this fall that will measure whether they can defend their most important political advance of the Donald Trump era. Big gains in well-educated inner suburbs ringing the nation’s major cities keyed all the […] Read more »

What we learned about the urban/rural political divide in Washington

For years, the “Cascade Curtain” has been a favored way to describe Washington state politics — Republican on the dry side of the mountains, Democratic on the wet side. Within that framework the “suburban crescent” — the area surrounding Seattle — was an exception, the place in western Washington where […] Read more »