Joe Biden’s fellow candidates have compared him to Donald Trump, dismissed him as past his sell-by date and gone public in unison with concerns about his previous positions on race, abortion and even his physically affectionate campaign style. There is little evidence that any of it has stuck. Most August […] Read more »
Patriotism’s Reshaping of the Parties and the 2020 Election
The meaning of patriotism in the United States was raised during a tense moment this summer, when President Donald Trump accused four ethnic minority women in Congress of “hating America” and inviting them to “leave it” if they “aren’t happy here,” after they challenged their Democratic Party leaders on immigration […] Read more »
Trump’s lost summer: Aides claim victory, but others see incompetence and intolerance
… White House officials promote the summer of 2019 as one of historic achievement for Trump, offering up a list of more than two dozen accomplishments. But privately, many of the president’s advisers and outside allies bemoan what they consider to be a period of missed opportunity and self-sabotage. In […] Read more »
Nate Silver: ‘Overall, no, I don’t buy that crowd size tells us much’
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver analyzes the importance of crowd sizes in the 2020 presidential race. This Week, ABC News Read more »
Labor Unions, Like Voters, Are Waiting to Pick a 2020 Favorite
… Despite years of pummeling by Republican-controlled legislatures that have sought to weaken their power, unions are still viewed by Democrats as an important constituency: A Gallup poll conducted in August found that 82 percent of Democrats approve of unions. And beyond the seal of validation endorsements afford, union members […] Read more »
The Senate suddenly looks like it’s up for grabs in 2020
This week the 2020 Senate landscape grew a bit more interesting as Georgia’s Johnny Isakson announced he was resigning at the end of the year. That put another Republican-held seat on the battleground list — the second one in Georgia — and added more evidence that control for the upper […] Read more »