The jury has returned a true verdict: The press and the pundits, which forecast a gaudy red wave, got it horribly, terribly, magnificently wrong. … Instead of establishing a Bureau of Shame, a wiser use of our time would be to convince editors that the election-prediction industrial complex’s skills at […] Read more »
Abortion rights referendums are winning – with state-by-state battles over rights replacing national debate
An anti-abortion activist prays in front of a Planned Parenthood center in Philadelphia in September 2022. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Rachel Rebouche, Temple University The abortion landscape in the U.S. has been upended over the past five months, as many clinics offering the procedure have closed and people have […] Read more »
Republicans, Fear the Young
Stressed and sickened by thoughts of their rights and democracy slipping away, young Americans across gender, racial, geographic and education lines banded together last week to help save the Democrats from what many foresaw as a sizable midterm defeat. If the elections had been decided by voters 45 and older, […] Read more »
Midterm exit polls show that young voters drove Democratic resistance to the ‘red wave’
… In order to better understand how Democrats avoided big losses in the 2022 midterms, this analysis examines Democratic minus Republican (D-R) vote margins using 2022 exit polls data and those of earlier elections compiled by Edison Research. They show that among people voting for House of Representatives candidates, key […] Read more »
So You Think You Can Explain The Election
The election is over. The results are (mostly) in. Time to decide what it all means. That’s a particularly popular activity in a year when Democrats pulled off something of an upset — their successes going against historical expectations and the popular narrative that suggested Republicans were set to sweep […] Read more »
The GOP did fine with Latino voters. But that wasn’t good enough.
Republicans spent the past two years trying to win over Latino voters. They poured money and manpower into on-the-ground outreach. They recruited Latino candidates. And they focused on economics while staying conservative on social issues – a strategy that Donald Trump used to woo millions of new Latino voters in […] Read more »