Moms and Daughters Debate Gender Factor in Hillary Clinton’s Bid

… As her chances of becoming the first woman to be nominated by a major political party improve, many women are considering how much gender should play into their decisions to embrace Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy — or not. … Unlike in her 2008 campaign, Mrs. Clinton has this year leaned […] Read more »

Why Hillary is asking America to see her candidacy as ‘historic’

In her presidential campaign kick-off speech and in a subsequent interview with Iowa media, Hillary Clinton leaned pretty hard into the notion that electing her president would represent a major historical breakthrough. … But it probably isn’t an accident that she noted that she’d be the first female president as […] Read more »

Baby Boomers More Likely to Identify as Conservative

Older generations of Americans are much more likely to describe their political views as conservative than as liberal. This includes the large baby boom generation, of whom 44% identified as conservative and 21% as liberal last year. That 23-percentage-point conservative advantage is less than the 31-point edge for the older […] Read more »