President Trump’s first year has been marked by an almost complete lack of major policy wins.1 But that could come to an end this week. Congress is on the verge of passing a massive tax bill into law. It would be the first major legislative victory for Trump and the […] Read more »
Rebelling Republican Suburbs Offer Democrats Path to House Control
… The mounting backlash to President Trump that is threatening his party’s control of Congress is no longer confined just to swing districts on either coast. Officials in both parties believe that Republican control of the House is now in grave jeopardy because a group of districts that are historically […] Read more »
Passing the GOP tax bill is hard. Selling it to voters may be harder.
For Democrats, the $1.5 trillion Republican tax bill is the legislative embodiment of everything that’s wrong with Donald Trump: a faux-populist, debt-financed, me-first bill that benefits the wealthy at the expense of everyday taxpayers. Democrats think it will contribute to an anti-Trump backlash in next year’s midterm elections. And there’s […] Read more »
Inside the Alabama election, a lesson for the GOP in 2018
By most any political estimation, last week’s Alabama special Senate election was an outlier. Democrats generally don’t win statewide races in Alabama and Doug Jones likely wouldn’t have if a series of child molestation stories hadn’t surfaced about Republican candidate Roy Moore. But tallies out of Alabama’s biggest vote-producing counties […] Read more »
Democrats hold biggest lead in congressional preference since 2008
Fresh off their victory in Alabama’s special Senate election, Democrats now enjoy their largest advantage in congressional preference in nine years, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, signaling a dangerous political environment for Republicans entering next year’s midterm elections. Fifty percent of registered voters say they prefer […] Read more »
Poll Hub: Alabama Shakes! Amy Walter Discusses How One Senate Race Could Shape 2018
The special election for U.S. Senate in Alabama has been a near-perfect encapsulation of problems with political polls. Some have used proven scientific methods, others have not. Some have been transparent with their data and methodology, others… not so much. And then there are the poll averages. Marist Poll Read more »