Democrats have now officially kicked off voting in the race to face President Trump. Meanwhile, the president is emerging from a painful, divisive impeachment process. Yet as they spend the rest of this week unpacking the Iowa caucus results and shifting their attention to New Hampshire, it’s the Democrats who […] Read more »
Conditions are ripe for a contested Democratic convention in 2020
The 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses were historic. They look to be the first caucuses in which at least four candidates reached or exceeded 15% of the vote. In fact, they mark the first time in any Democratic primary or caucuses that at least four candidates reached or exceeded at least […] Read more »
Democrats Viewed as Divided, but Satisfied With Candidates
With 11 Democrats vying for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination as the primary season kicks off, 65% of Americans describe the Democratic Party as divided while 34% see it as united. By contrast, the majority of Americans (56%) say the Republican Party is united versus 43% divided. CONT. Lydia Saad, […] Read more »
You’ll Never Know Which Candidate Is Electable
… Months of talking about the primary — and wondering whether candidates will eventually win the general election — has made electability a hot buzzword of the 2020 election. … To understand it better, researchers have looked at a couple of different kinds of social collisions: What voters like in […] Read more »
Trump’s Biggest Vulnerability
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday offered a preview of the economic debate that could tip the presidential election this fall. The speech crystallized a key question: Will voters measure their personal economic well-being primarily through trends in unemployment and the stock market, or by whether […] Read more »
He complained about Democrats’ tech ‘morass’ — then built the Iowa app
The CEO of the tech startup at the center of the Iowa caucus debacle complained last year that critical parts of the Democrats’ election technology were a “shitshow” and a “tangled morass.” He said he wanted to fix things. CONT. Issie Lapowsky, Protocol Read more »