Results from Latino Decisions’ election eve poll are out. So are the media’s national exit polls. And, of course, in almost every state and district we now have the final election returns. What did we learn from the 2014 midterms? Herewith, LD’s bullet-pointed list of the 8 major takeaways from […] Read more »
Which Republican Party won the midterms?
… Welcome to the 114th Congress, in which the warfare within the GOP will only be amplified by the party’s new power. The pragmatic desire of mainstream Republicans to transcend their “party of no” label and show that they can actually govern will clash with the forces that continue to […] Read more »
Meet the voters who feel the economy is rigged, believe in global warming — and voted Republican
… The exit polls show a midterm electorate that skews more conservative than the one that reelected Obama two years ago. But it still shows solid majorities among those voters for some traditionally liberal policy stances. Fifty-seven percent of voters said illegal immigrants working in the United States should be […] Read more »
Hispanic Voters in the 2014 Election
Democrats maintained a large edge among Latinos voting in Tuesday’s midterm elections, but in some states, Republican candidates won more than 40% of the Latino vote, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of National Election Pool exit poll data as reported by NBC News. Though Democrats comfortably won the […] Read more »
Why the Economy Couldn’t Save the Democrats
… So what explains the apparent repudiation of the president’s party despite an improving economy under his watch? In a column written shortly before the election, political scientist Lynn Vavreck argued that midterms are not about the economy – they are referendums on the president. But this tells only part […] Read more »
The Divide Between Republican And Democratic Voters On Major Issues
… Voters on Tuesday didn’t provide much hope for interparty cooperation. In exit polls, Democratic and Republican voters disagreed sharply on just about every issue they were asked about. Their one point of agreement amid a half-dozen splits was that they approved of U.S. military action against Islamic State. … […] Read more »