… Political tensions between African American, Hispanic American, Asian American and white communities in Los Angeles are now on full display as a result of the publication of a secretly taped conversation that exposed the crude, racist scheming of three Hispanic City Council officials and a Hispanic labor leader — […] Read more »
Big Apple Is Sour on the Job Mayor Adams Is Doing
While 29% of New York City adults think Mayor Eric Adams is doing an excellent or good job as mayor, 64% say he’s doing only a fair or poor job. On three specific issues – fighting crime, addressing homelessness, and safety at Rikers Island – New Yorkers give the mayor […] Read more »
How long can Democrats keep losing rural voters and still survive?
In the past few election cycles, color-coded result maps have developed a very familiar pattern at the county level. They mostly look like seas of Republican red punctuated by small islands of Democratic blue, even in races that end up being close. Those maps are a sign of a major […] Read more »
Why California Wants to Recall Its Most Progressive Prosecutors
San Francisco and Los Angeles are two of America’s most liberal large counties. Democrats dominate their elected offices up and down the ballot. Yet in both places, serious efforts are under way to recall left-leaning district attorneys who have not even completed their first term. San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin and […] Read more »
Washington, D.C.: About 3 in 4 residents support vaccine rules Bowser just rescinded, poll finds
About three-quarters of D.C. residents support the city’s vaccine requirement to enter certain businesses, a policy that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) ended Tuesday. The citywide Washington Post poll finds 74 percent of residents support D.C.’s requirement to show proof of vaccination before going inside restaurants, gyms, concert venues and […] Read more »
Ranking the States Demographically, from Most Republican-Friendly to Most Democratic-Friendly
Key Points• For all 50 states, we looked at 3 variables that are increasingly linked with partisan voting patterns: education level, race, and urbanization.• When the states are rank-ordered by their composite scores on these 3 measures, the Republican-voting states for the 2020 presidential election cluster on one end of […] Read more »