Less than two months before Latino voters head to the polls for the 2018 midterm elections, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund and Latino Decisions released the results of the second wave of its ten-week tracking poll of Latino registered voters. Results from the […] Read more »
Primary Season Was Full of Surprises. Here’s Why the Polls Missed Some of Them.
Ayanna Pressley’s blowout victory over a 10-term congressman last week was the latest example of a trend that has become abundantly clear: 2018 is the year of the progressive insurgent, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Andrew Gillum. But if you relied exclusively on polls, you may not have seen these results […] Read more »
State of The 2018 House Race
The Monmouth University Poll finds the race for control of the House of Representatives to be tight in a new analysis of polls conducted in eight competitive bellwether congressional districts over the summer. … These are key findings from 3,390 interviews conducted in CA48, PA01, PA17, NJ03, NJ11, OH12, VA10, […] Read more »
Democratic Senate hopes are alive, though precarious
… Democrats need a net gain of two seats. To get there, Democrats probably need one of the following scenarios to come true. Democrats likely need to win Republican held seats in Arizona and Nevada. Then they need to hold onto all 26 of their currently held seats, including in […] Read more »
Democrats Embrace Liberal Insurgents, Demanding New Face for Party
The Democratic primary elections of 2018 have brought an end to an era of deference by liberals to establishment leaders in Washington and the states, as an emboldened coalition of women, young people and racial minorities claimed ownership of the party and steered it to war against President Trump. In […] Read more »
Boiling resistance to Trump produces Democrats’ herbal tea party
Some call it the resistance; others label it the herbal tea party. Whatever the name, liberal insurgents demanding a more confrontational approach to President Trump and his Republican allies upended the Democratic establishment last week. From Boston’s Charles River to the Senate committee rooms at the Capitol, from Chicago’s City […] Read more »