Most Democrats want impeachment hearings to begin now that special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted findings are public, but that idea is still unpopular overall, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. The results come as national Democratic Party leaders and 2020 presidential candidates are grappling with how to approach an […] Read more »
Assessing electability: Like nailing Jell-O to a wall
We’re not exactly sure when the awkward word “electability” really entered the national lexicon, but the concept — voters and party bigwigs making a pre-election assessment about who is likeliest to win — is surely as old as democracy itself. CONT. Kyle Kondik, Sabato’s Crystal Ball Read more »
Trump’s unlikely new best friends wear blue
… Although it’s early in the campaign season, we’ve already seen a few of the Democratic presidential hopefuls take some incoming fire with the fingerprints of oppo researchers all over them. … When it comes to political debate in the age of social media, the argument isn’t, “My opponent is […] Read more »
The Democrats Are Still the Party of Obama, Part 2 (Joe Biden Edition)
After the 2018 midterm elections, much of the national media suffered from a collective misunderstanding of the Democratic Party. Multiple news stories described a party that was moving sharply to the left under the newfound leadership of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow Democratic Socialists. But Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t very representative of […] Read more »
Joe Biden’s entry resets a very volatile Democratic primary
The Democratic race for president has, at least for now, been reset. We had two high quality national polls released on Tuesday from CNN and Quinnipiac University, and they show two very similar trends: 1. The current top tier is former Vice President Joe Biden and Joe Biden alone after […] Read more »
Why Biden is leading — and why that lead should be taken with a grain of salt
Over the last month, following his formal entry into the Democratic presidential primary contest, former vice president Joe Biden surged more than 10 points in polling conducted by CNN and its partner SSRS. His lead in this poll is now twice that of the second-most popular candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders […] Read more »