Here’s a question very few people expected to be asking this year: Does the Democratic Party have a future? The defeat of Hillary Clinton has revived with new intensity the conflict between proponents of identity politics — focusing electoral attention on African-Americans, Hispanics, women and the L.G.B.T. community — and […] Read more »
Obama’s post-election glow doesn’t shine on Democrats
Barack Obama has gotten his last post-election bump as president, but perceptions of his party have moved in the opposite direction since Election Day, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. Obama’s approval rating in the poll stands at 57%, his highest since September 2009. That figure is on par with […] Read more »
The Clintons were undone by the middle-American voters they once knew so well
Few Americans knew the voters who rejected Hillary Clinton better than her husband. He lived among them growing up, and then studied them with a fanatical intensity during his political rise. But now, with any notion of a dynasty dead and gone, one explanation for the stunning political demise of […] Read more »
Barack Obama is now viewed more positively than Ronald Reagan was in 1988
Pollster.com’s Charles Franklin was a little ahead of the curve Sunday morning when he pointed out that President Obama’s approval rating right now is among the highest Election-Day approval ratings in recent history. … Why is that ahead of the curve? Because on Monday, fewer than 24 hours before polls […] Read more »
Obama Averages 52.0% Job Approval in 31st Quarter
During his 31st quarter in office, President Barack Obama averaged 52.0% job approval, up one percentage point from the 30th quarter and the highest in his second term as president. … Of the six presidents who served 31 quarters in office, Obama is the fourth to have majority approval at […] Read more »
The Ross Perot Myth
George H.W. Bush only lost his re-election bid in 1992 because a peculiar independent candidate from Texas, Ross Perot, drew more voters away from Bush than from Democratic candidate Bill Clinton. It’s one of the most enduring myths in U.S. presidential election history. CONT. FiveThirtyEight See also: Vengeful billionaire sinks President’s […] Read more »