After a month that encompassed a mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the start of the Jan. 6 committee hearings in Congress, and average gas prices hitting $5 a gallon amid rising inflation, President Joe Biden’s job approval rating didn’t change between May and June, holding at 41%. Biden’s job […] Read more »
Biden’s defense of democracy, strong abroad, is struggling on his home turf
Joe Biden has made vindicating democracy the central objective of his presidency. Improbably, he has found more success abroad than at home so far. The President’s signal achievement has been uniting Western democracies in defense of Ukraine against Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian aggression. With coordinated flows of military equipment, […] Read more »
Democrats are losing ground with the fastest-growing political bloc: Asian Americans
A lot of attention has been paid to the problems President Joe Biden and other Democrats have with core party constituencies, including young and Hispanic voters. And there’s been plenty of polling to back that up. Far less attention, though, has been paid to potential declines in Democrats’ standing among […] Read more »
Biden’s Economic Woes
This has been a transitory year, from the pandemic to inflation, and now possibly to recession. The Fed just raised interest rates by 0.75% in hopes of stemming inflation. Will it work? Or will it kick start an economic dip? We will see. But negative economic indicators are all around […] Read more »
Gavin Newsom’s Case for a More Aggressive Democratic Party
On May 4, two days after Politico rocked Washington by revealing the draft of a Supreme Court decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, California Governor Gavin Newsom delivered remarks at a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood office—and triggered a small earthquake of his own. Newsom pledged that, however the […] Read more »
Biden approval rating at 39% amid economic fears; 47% ‘strongly disapprove’
President Joe Biden said Thursday Americans were “really, really down.” He’s right about that. A new USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll shows the country in a funk and one that sets a problematic political landscape for Democrats in the November elections that are approaching fast. Only 39% of Americans approve of the […] Read more »