While Obama has shown an ability to energize and boost turnout with minority voters, this trend of a more diverse electorate started before him and will likely continue after he leaves office. It is simple demographics and actuarial science. This means Republicans should plan for a 2016 electorate that is […] Read more »
Why Democrats Can’t Win Over White Working-Class Voters
The Democratic Party styles itself a fighter for the working class. But a substantial part of that class—the white part—wants nothing to do with it. If we count the white working class as whites without college degrees, then congressional Democrats lost them by 30 points in last week’s elections, contributing […] Read more »
Why the Voters of 2016 Are Likely to Be Younger and More Diverse
A midterm election has come and gone, and now begins a new round of speculation about whether the Democrats can remobilize young and nonwhite voters in 2016. The question hinges on how much of the growing nonwhite share of the electorate is the result of President Obama’s unique appeal. CONT. […] Read more »
Black Vote Seen as Last Hope For Democrats to Hold Senate
The confidential memo from a former pollster for President Obama contained a blunt warning for Democrats. Written this month with an eye toward Election Day, it predicted “crushing Democratic losses across the country” if the party did not do more to get black voters to the polls. “African-American surge voters […] Read more »
Blacks, Hispanics have doubts about media accuracy
A new study shows a large majority of African-American and Hispanic news consumers don’t fully trust the media to portray their communities accurately, a statistic that could be troubling for the news industry as the minority population of the United States grows. … When asked whether they thought news about […] Read more »
California: Police in our community
USC Dornsife/LA Times Poll: Most Californians don’t feel mistreated by police, but believe others have been unfairly targeted Read more »