Listening to Joe Biden, you might come away with the sense that he is out of touch with the Democratic Party’s electorate, which many believe is younger, further left and better educated than it used to be. Indeed, the party’s voters may be all of these things. But, as HuffPost’s […] Read more »
A Biden 2020 candidacy would confront Democratic Party with its past
The Democratic Party of 2020 will face a reckoning with the Democratic Party of 50 years ago if former Vice President Joe Biden seeks the presidency, as he’s expected to do. When Biden, who’s now 76, was first elected to the Senate from Delaware in 1972, Democrats relied on an […] Read more »
Inside Trump’s all-about-that-base 2020 strategy
President Donald Trump’s path to re-election runs through an alternate voter universe. Rather than build from his base, like a traditional politician, Trump is trying to expand his base and make it a larger share of the overall electorate. The idea is for his campaign, which has begun to ramp […] Read more »
Stop thinking of Bernie Sanders as a gadfly. He’s the front-runner
In case you missed it, Bernie Sanders is now, for all practical purposes, the front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Vermont socialist pulled in $18 million in the first three months of 2019, most of it from small donors. His nearest rival, Kamala Harris, collected $12 […] Read more »
After 2016 loss, Democrats know they need white male voters
… White men make up typically make up about one-third of the electorate. In 2018, 41 percent of them voted for Democrats, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of the national electorate. While Democrats’ strength among women won headlines and was often credited with Democrats’ strong showing, white men also […] Read more »
Generational challenges lie ahead for Biden and Buttigieg
Sometimes the confluence of unrelated events provides a moment of clarity in politics. So it is with the recent travails of former vice president Joe Biden and the recent emergence of Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 presidential race. They highlight the challenges that generational politics will play as Democrats select […] Read more »