… The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left and the Republican Party so far right that not only is the center of gravity in each party heading toward the extremes but the parties are each getting narrower; the ideological distance between the most liberal in the Democratic […] Read more »
The Biden effect is real
… Weeks of Biden’s disingenuous statements on inflation are now costing him precious capital with voters. In NBC News’ latest poll, released Sunday, people said the country was going off on the wrong track by a margin of 75 percent wrong track to 16 percent right track. Biden himself sunk […] Read more »
President Biden’s approval rating is at 42% again this week
President Joe Biden’s approval rating remains stable at 42% on this week’s Ipsos’ Core Political. The economy (28%) continues to be the most important issue facing the country with 35% of Republicans, 27% of independents, and 22% of Democrats saying so. In distant second place is a three-way tie between […] Read more »
Biden’s ‘MAGA Republicans’ is a meh-ga slogan
… The underlying political logic behind attacking “MAGA Republicans” is sound. Large chunks of the GOP are ensnared in a Trumpian cabal that is about a cult of personality rather than policy issues. It may have taken the Biden team six months (and probably dozens of meetings) to realize that […] Read more »
Sometimes, a political party needs to listen to the voters
… Purely from an electoral point of view, there is no problem with the Democratic Party standing for equal rights, addressing poverty and racism, promoting public safety and modern approaches to policing, addressing climate change, promoting immigration and supporting abortion rights. The great majority of Democrats and many swing voters […] Read more »
Getting Heard By Our Discontented Working Class Voters
Democratic fortunes in the midterms depend on how well they are running in their working base among Blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans (AAPI), unmarried women, the Millennial and Gen Z generations, as well as with the under-fifty white working class women. These voters are deeply discontented with the state of the […] Read more »