Road to the Recall, an independent statewide voter survey, was unveiled today to provide new insight on the upcoming September 14 special recall election in California. This new poll of N=804 California registered voters was conducted Tuesday July 27 – Thursday July 29, just days after the Secretary of State […] Read more »
California gubernatorial recall election much closer among voters considered most likely to participate than among the overall electorate
The latest Berkeley IGS Poll finds that the proportion of voters in the overall electorate who favor recalling Governor Gavin Newsom has not changed much over the past year. At present 36% of the state’s registered voters say that if voting in the recall election they would vote Yes to […] Read more »
The New York mayoral primary is a reminder that Black and Latino voters are pragmatic
Primaries are about factional battles within parties, and Eric Adams won a major fight last week. The message from Adams’s win in New York City’s Democratic primary — echoing that of President Biden’s victory last fall — is that the Democratic Party is much more than the progressive left, even […] Read more »
Kathryn Garcia could win the NYC Democratic mayoral primary
New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary race is far from over. The city is taking a long time to figure out who has won under the new ranked choice voting system. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams had about a 10-point lead over civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley and former sanitation […] Read more »
How NYC Board of Elections’ mistake fuels Trump’s false election fraud claims
The New York City Democratic mayoral primary is a total mess. The city’s Board of Elections, known for previous errors, managed to make its biggest one to date when it accidentally included about 135,000 test ballots in its initial calculation of the primary results under the city’s new ranked-choice voting […] Read more »
‘New York City Is a World Unto Itself.’ But It May Tell Us Where Democrats Are Headed.
On the Democratic side of the New York mayoral contest, Eric Adams, the African-American former police captain and Brooklyn borough president, continues to hold a lead over Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley. From a national vantage point, the most significant element of Adams’s campaign so far lies in his across-the-board […] Read more »