… In the latest CNN poll, 67% of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s administration’s policy that resulted in a “significant increase in the number of young children who have been separated from their parents at the border and placed in government facilities.” The policy’s unpopularity surely played a role […] Read more »
Good News for Republicans, It’s Not 2006
For much of 2017 and early 2018, GOP consultants of a certain age would tell us that this election had the same look, feel and smell of 2006; the last time Republicans had a terrible midterm election. The President was unpopular, the Democrats were motivated and GOP members were retiring […] Read more »
Back to the Future With Party ID
It’s morning again in America. You grab your first cup of coffee, click to your favorite news site and are greeted by a new poll with a huge generic ballot spike in the congressional vote. What should your reaction be? Is it time to freak out, or calm down and […] Read more »
The Wrong Fight at the Wrong Time for the GOP
You need to hand it to President Donald Trump, his entire administration and his party. It takes more than a little chutzpah to act in a way that seems callous to the concerns of children. … If reports are correct that Trump thought the “zero tolerance” policy would help him […] Read more »
Senate 2018: Two Rust Belt Ratings Move in the Democrats’ Direction
In 2016, President Donald Trump narrowly carried Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by a combined 67,000 or so votes to defeat Hillary Clinton and carry the two states’ combined 30 electoral votes. Those victories, along with Trump’s 10,000-vote win in Michigan, seemingly signaled an end to the “Blue Wall” that supposedly gave […] Read more »
The Broad Support for Taxing the Wealthy
The 2018 elections in November could be as important to Democrats as the anti-Obamacare 2010 wave election that shaped American politics for almost a decade was to Republicans—if Democrats don’t let ’em hide from their tax scam for the rich. And we do not yet know whether Democrats will get […] Read more »