A new nationwide University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll released today finds Americans continue to support a wide variety of election reforms, intended to make voting easier, while also maintaining a strong desire for photo ID requirements at voting booths. The poll of 1,000 respondents found majority support for reforms including […] Read more »
The left is already looking to 2024. Some want to see a Biden primary challenge.
When Joe Biden first came into office, progressives said he could be the next FDR. Now, as Biden’s relationship with the left has come under strain, liberals are talking about treating him like former President Jimmy Carter instead — and mapping out a Democratic primary challenge in 2024. … The […] Read more »
The 2021 High School Yearbook of American Politics
Well, that was weird. Much of the past 12 months felt as though 2021 came about by looking at the political insanity of 2020 and thinking smugly: Hold my beer. The storming of the Capitol? A second Trump impeachment? Senator Ted Cruz going hard at Big Bird? Infrastructure Week actually […] Read more »
Commonsense Solidarity: How a working-class coalition can be built, and maintained
In 2021, Jacobin, a New York-based socialist magazine with a print circulation of 75,000 and an online audience of three million a month, collaborated with YouGov to survey working-class voting behavior in the United States. The work was done in conjunction with the newly formed Center for WorkingClass Politics. … […] Read more »
In Democratic contests, the moderates strike back
When New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the political world by unseating a 10-term incumbent in a Democratic primary in 2018, some analysts believed the victory might foreshadow a party shift to progressivism. But three years later, the evidence for the great turn leftward is scant. In fact, looking at […] Read more »
American Public Opinion and Infrastructure Legislation
Infrastructure is now on the front burner in Congress, with the debate not so much over whether to pass an infrastructure bill, but rather what form it should take. … I have previously noted the strong general interest Americans have in tending to the nation’s infrastructure, most recently summarizing the […] Read more »