Demographic change continued to chip away at the cornerstone of the Republican electoral coalition in 2022, a new analysis of Census data has found. White voters without a four-year college degree, the indispensable core of the modern GOP coalition, declined in 2022 as a share of both actual and eligible […] Read more »
What Americans think about the debt ceiling fight
For most Americans, the debt ceiling is something abstract and technical that officials in Washington fight about. They have a hard time understanding the impact that this issue could have on their daily lives, and they do not appear to be listening to the warnings that policy experts are issuing […] Read more »
Pollsters worry Trump problem is ‘back with a vengeance’
Pollsters are again staring down a familiar nemesis: Donald Trump. The polling industry whiffed every year Trump has been on the ballot. … And now, with Trump expanding his lead over his GOP primary rivals, pollsters are fretting about a bloc of the electorate that has made his support nearly […] Read more »
‘The Diplomat’ negotiates expectations – and myths – about gender, power and politics
Keri Russell plays a a nonpolitical straight shooter in a political role that she grudgingly accepts. Brian van der Brug / Contributor/Getty Images Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University Few people would have predicted that a loquacious drama about a woman foreign service professional would have been Netflix’s next big […] Read more »
Trump’s defiance at the CNN town hall may scare off many voters — but not the GOP base
The Republicans in the audience laughed when former President Donald Trump mocked a woman who accused him of rape. They cheered when he defended his role during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. And they applauded again after he said he was “honored” to “terminate Roe v. […] Read more »
New Yahoo News poll shows Biden still leads Trump for 2024
As Democrats coalesce around him as their inevitable nominee, President Biden still narrowly leads former President Donald Trump in a 2024 general-election matchup, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Yet the results also expose significant vulnerabilities for Biden — including his advanced age and the widespread perception that his […] Read more »