This week, we preview the final Democratic primary debate of 2019, and discuss how the DNC debate qualifications may be affecting the field. The Forecast Fest Read more »
The House Has Impeached President Trump. Here’s What We Learned.
The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump on Wednesday, making him just the third president ever to be impeached. … At the moment, impeachment appears likely to end up serving mostly as a stern condemnation of Trump’s actions by House Democrats. Still, the impeachment of a president is […] Read more »
Where Impeachment Crosses Party Lines, but Fixates on Trump
Treacy Broadhead, a registered Republican, has voted in recent years for all of her party’s candidates for office, save one: Donald J. Trump. “This particular president, I don’t agree with at all,’’ she said on Wednesday as the House of Representatives moved toward a historic impeachment vote. “I think the […] Read more »
NBC/WSJ poll: Public remains split on Trump’s impeachment and ouster from office
Just hours before the U.S. House of Representatives is slated to vote on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that the American public remains deadlocked — reliably along party lines — over whether he should be impeached and removed […] Read more »
What Unites Republicans May Be Changing. Same With Democrats.
In a book released on the eve of the 2016 election called “Asymmetric Politics,” political scientists Matthew Grossmann and David Hopkins argued that America’s political parties don’t just have different ideologies, but are really different kinds of organizations. “Republicans are organized around broad symbolic principles, whereas Democrats are a coalition […] Read more »
Asian American and Pacific Islander voters may soon face potential shift in political power
When tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang became the last 2020 presidential contender to secure a spot on the December debate stage, his presence as the sole candidate of color to appear in an otherwise all-white lineup provided a visible example of the types of concerns his competitors have cited about the […] Read more »