Sometimes the confluence of unrelated events provides a moment of clarity in politics. So it is with the recent travails of former vice president Joe Biden and the recent emergence of Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 presidential race. They highlight the challenges that generational politics will play as Democrats select […] Read more »
Who is Joe Biden’s base, really?
To put it mildly, former vice president Joe Biden hasn’t had a great week. Multiple women have come forward saying that he was uncomfortably handsy with them on the campaign trail. … So what, other than the assumption that Biden could win back some white, working-class Obama-to-Trump voters, is keeping […] Read more »
The Joe Biden Media Frenzy
… The late 1980s and 1990s marked a high-water mark for a kind of giddy journalistic derangement over politicians’ adultery, drug use and draft avoidance — a somewhat arbitrary trio of offenses inflated into mortal sins. Candidates and nominees for various public positions were barraged with questions on these issues, […] Read more »
Black Voters Like Bernie Sanders Just Fine — They Just Might Like Other Candidates More
The narrative after the 2016 Democratic primary was that black voters overwhelmingly chose Hillary Clinton in part because they didn’t like or connect with Sen. Bernie Sanders. That dislike for Sanders was often attributed to his focus on inequality based on class rather than race and to his sometimes clumsy […] Read more »
Sanders leads among likely young Democratic presidential primary voters, with Biden in second place
A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29- year-olds by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School finds Sen. Bernie Sanders (31%) leads among likely young Democratic presidential primary voters, with former Vice President Joe Biden (20%) in second place, and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (10%) in […] Read more »
Democrats have room to grow as voters rank 2020 candidates
Before citizens can actually vote for a presidential candidate, they first have to be comfortable with him or her and this week’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll offers some clues about where voters stand on the growing (and growing) 2020 field. The poll shows some serious challenges for President Donald […] Read more »