The 2012 election marks the year when the inexorable march of demographic change caught up with the Republican Party. While multiple factors led to President Obama’s reelection, none was as important as rapidly increasing demographic change in the American electorate. Mitt Romney won white voters by a landslide, 59 to […] Read more »
Christian Right Failed to Sway Voters on Issues
Christian conservatives, for more than two decades a pivotal force in American politics, are grappling with Election Day results that repudiated their influence and suggested that the cultural tide — especially on gay issues — has shifted against them. … The election results are just one indication of larger trends […] Read more »
President Obama and the white vote? No problem.
In the run-up to Tuesday’s election, there was much talk that President Obama could be headed to a historically poor showing among white voters, a result that could jeopardize his ability to win the overall popular vote. And, while Obama did lose white voters by 20 points to former Massachusetts […] Read more »
Election Data Dive
… There may have been a backlash against voter suppression laws, bringing more minorities to the polls, not fewer. The share of Hispanic voters rose in many states won by Obama. That can be attributed both to the surging Hispanic population in the country and to the Obama campaign’s incredible […] Read more »
The GOP has lost its way. Here’s how it can return to its roots.
… True, the election outcome was a rejection of Mitt Romney, but it was also a rejection of a political party that for many has become incoherent at best and contradictory at worst. Doubts plague the GOP. It is no exaggeration to call them “severe.” The Republican Party has more […] Read more »
Messina: Obama Won On The Small Stuff
Barack Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, said Friday that the president’s reelection was won “on the micro stuff.” … “You have to test every single thing, to challenge every assumption, and to make sure that everything we do is provable.” … Messina spoke to BuzzFeed Friday after sharing a panel stage […] Read more »