President Donald Trump scored a 41% approval rating compared with a 53% disapproval rating, among all Americans in CNN’s latest poll. That -12 point net approval rating gives us a fairly good idea of what most Americans think of the job Trump is doing. And it’s not good. But for […] Read more »
What We Can Learn From the Demise of Trump’s Infrastructure Plan
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed what had already been apparent for months: Congress is not going to enact infrastructure legislation this year. In its early weeks, Trump treated infrastructure investment as a major goal of his presidency; as recently as January’s State of the Union […] Read more »
Are Women Candidates Winning More In 2018?
There’s already a record number of women running for House seats and governorships in 2018 — and women Senate candidates are on track to break records as well. On the first big night of the 2018 primaries this week, those women fared particularly well. CONT. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR Read more »
Red waves, scrambled Democrats, ideal Republicans: Three myths about this week’s primaries
Republicans spent Wednesday in a perpetual state of high-fiving after coal baron and convicted criminal Don Blankenship lost his bid for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination in West Virginia. The party, according to President Trump, had nominated candidates “who have a great chance of winning in November.” Turnout, according to […] Read more »
Rothenberg’s Dangerous Dozen Open House Seats
Yes, it’s time for another of my “dangerous dozen open House seats” columns, which I have been writing since shortly after the establishment of the Jamestown Settlement (or so it seems). … Here is my list, in descending order of vulnerability. CONT. Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call Read more »
Six Months ahead of the Midterm Elections, Democratic and Republican Voters’ Views about President Trump Outweigh their Views on Issues
As primary season for the 2018 midterm elections heats up, the latest Kaiser Family Foundation poll suggests the elections are shaping up more as a referendum on President Trump than on health care or any other issue. When asked what will make the biggest difference in how they vote in […] Read more »