It’s easy to miss the importance of this year’s South Carolina primary. Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders has already built a wave of momentum. Many more delegates will be allocated in the Super Tuesday contests just three days after the Palmetto State votes. But make no mistake: South Carolina is the […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Sanders knocks Biden out of first, majority thinks Trump wins
Bernie Sanders pushes Joe Biden out of the frontrunner spot for the Democratic nomination, capturing a record 31 percent support among primary voters in a new Fox News Poll. This is the first 2020 Fox national poll that finds Biden not leading the Democratic race. … Among all voters, all […] Read more »
The Sanders Tax: How our Electoral College ratings might change if he becomes the presumptive nominee
Key Points• If Democrats nominated Bernie Sanders, they would, initially, start off with somewhat of a penalty in our Electoral College ratings.• Sanders’ policy prescriptions and rhetoric may complicate Democratic prospects in the Sun Belt, where the party’s recent growth has been driven by highly-educated suburbanites.• Given the composition of […] Read more »
What Defines The Sanders Coalition?
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s coalition isn’t that big, at least not right now — he won about a quarter of Democratic primary voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, plus about a third of the first-alignment vote in Nevada, and about a quarter to a third of Democratic voters say they support […] Read more »
Should the majority rule?
… Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), like most other electoral reformers, has strongly favored majority rules for most of his career. He advocated such systems as mayor of Burlington, Vt. , in Congress, and now, as a presidential candidate. Sanders argues it is unfair to let a candidate win who might […] Read more »
Five more years of populism would be a disaster for America
Capitalism isn’t broken, but populism may be on the verge of breaking it. If Democratic Party front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ends up securing the presidential nomination, the Oval Office will be occupied by a populist for the next five years — regardless of who wins in November. This is […] Read more »