Will Joe run? That’s Vice President Joe Biden, of course, and that’s been the topic in Washington this week as he’s publicly flirted with the idea. If Mr. Biden decides to run, the most difficult task for him may come in cobbling together a coalition capable of challenging Democratic front-runner […] Read more »
The Primary Map Still Favors Clinton
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been under siege for months as additional revelations and developments regarding her use of a private email account continue to drip out. Last week, the Crystal Ball explored what might happen should Clinton drop out of the Democratic primary or, as the rumors […] Read more »
Book Revew: ‘Give Us the Ballot,’ by Ari Berman
… “The revolution of 1965 spawned an equally committed group of counterrevolutionaries,” Berman writes in “Give Us the Ballot.” “Since the V.R.A.’s passage, they have waged a decades-long campaign to restrict voting rights.” Berman argues that these counterrevolutionaries have “in recent years, controlled a majority on the Supreme Court” and […] Read more »
Tale of Two Cities: Views of Katrina Recovery in New Orleans Divide along Racial Lines
African American and white residents of New Orleans see the progress of recovery since Hurricane Katrina very differently, according to a new survey from the Manship School of Mass Communication’s Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs at LSU. Nearly 80 percent of the city’s white residents feel Louisiana has […] Read more »
How much should BlackLivesMatter to Bernie?
… The Sanders’ campaign is struggling to broaden its appeal beyond the aging hipsters, college students and left-wing professors to attract support from more moderate and conservative Democratic voters that right now are supporting Clinton and who typically constitute about half the Democratic nomination electorate. It’s not clear how having […] Read more »
Nine Years Ago, Republicans Favored Voting Rights. What Happened?
On July 20, 2006, the United States Senate voted to renew the Voting Rights Act for 25 more years. The vote was unanimous, 98 to 0. That followed an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives, which passed it by a vote of 390 to 33. President George Bush […] Read more »