Democrats had a good 2018 and new data released this week helps explain why. Last year’s midterms featured enormous turnout and it was especially high among groups that tend to favor Democratic candidates. Census numbers from the Current Population Survey show spikes in 2018 turnout among young voters, highly educated […] Read more »
Voter Turnout Rates Among All Voting Age and Major Racial and Ethnic Groups Were Higher Than in 2014
The November 2018 election is widely recognized for its high voter turnout. Census Bureau data released today show who is behind the historic 11 percentage point increase from the last midterm election in 2014. Voter turnout went up among all voting age and major racial and ethnic groups. Fifty-three percent […] Read more »
Young people actually rocked the vote in 2018, new Census Bureau data finds
Voter turnout spiked to a 100-year high in last year’s midterm congressional elections. Census Bureau data released Tuesday finds turnout rates jumped across nearly all groups, but the shift was particularly notable among young adults who typically stay home in nonpresidential years. CONT. Scott Clement & Ted Mellnik, Washington Post Read more »
President Trump Still Wants to Repeal Obamacare
The health-care proposal likely to loom largest over the 2020 presidential election was released last week—and it didn’t come from a Democrat. In the 2020 federal budget that President Donald Trump unveiled, he renewed his commitment to repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with a block-grant system that […] Read more »
How Beto O’Rourke Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
… Since his November 2018 Senate loss to Ted Cruz, O’Rourke has been one of the most-buzzed-about potential candidates in the 2020 Democratic field. That excitement could help propel him to the top of the primary heap, but first he’ll need to prove that he can run — and endure […] Read more »
Battleground States Then (2012/2016) vs. Now (2018/2019)
Was the 2016 election a one-off — a once-in-a-lifetime contest between two fundamentally flawed contestants? Or, was it a realignment election; the end of Democratic dominance in the industrial Midwest as well as the loosening of the Republican grip on southwestern states like Arizona and Texas? Was Clinton the outlier […] Read more »