Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 run for the White House has been predicated on his ability to energize the electorate and bring new voters to the polls. But results from primary states so far suggest that increases in the vote up to now have not helped Sanders. In fact, the […] Read more »
Biden Outperforming Sanders In Counties With Lower Incomes, More Voters Of Color
A month after the Iowa caucuses, Super Tuesday offered up the first look at how a diverse swath of the country could vote in the Democratic presidential primary race. Now that more than 1,200 counties across 18 states have voted, a clearer picture is emerging of whom different segments of […] Read more »
Suburbanites are voting and that’s good news for Joe Biden
Nearly two years after suburbanites helped drive a Democratic surge, there are clear signs these voters are engaged and primed to vote Democratic again. Turnout in the Democratic presidential primary has been strong across suburban counties, from northern Virginia to Southern California, that fueled the 2018 wave. In several key […] Read more »
The primaries, the polls, and the political landscape ‘where only the last 72 hours seems to matter’
BuzzFeed News reporter Katherine Miller and CNN senior writer and analyst Harry Enten debrief about the past week of Democratic politics and how the stunning developments have been framed by the news media. Joe Biden’s victories were due “in part because people really wanted clarity in the field,” Miller says: […] Read more »
Sanders faces a challenging 30 days in his quest to defeat Biden
Joe Biden’s stunning turnaround in the past week has put pressure on Bernie Sanders to blunt or reverse the former vice president’s momentum. It won’t take long to determine whether the senator is up to the challenge. After the events of the past week, the one-on-one competition between Biden and […] Read more »
Biden and The Moderate Lane
Since Joe Biden’s stunning reversal of fortune coming out of South Carolina and into Super Tuesday, much has been said about Biden “consolidating the moderate lane,” now that Buttigieg, Bloomberg and Klobuchar have dropped out and endorsed him. He may have consolidated the moderate lane of presidential candidates and re-emerged […] Read more »