… Biden’s averaged 49% among all potential black Democratic primary voters in our last two CNN national polls. That’s good enough not only for a 35-point lead over his Democratic competitors, but good enough to beat all of them combined by about 10 points. But I think treating black voters […] Read more »
Why support for the death penalty is much higher among white Americans
People who oppose the death penalty cannot serve on juries in those cases. Crazy City Lady/Shutterstock.com Kevin O’Neal Cokley, University of Texas at Austin Sentencing a person to die is the ultimate punishment. There is no coming back from the permanence of the death penalty. In the U.S., the death […] Read more »
Liberals Do Not Want to Destroy the Family
When Attorney General William Barr warned in a speech at Notre Dame on Oct. 11 that secular liberalism had unleashed “licentiousness — the unbridled pursuit of personal appetites at the expense of the common good,” there was a glaring incongruity. How could Barr possibly fail to recognize that there is […] Read more »
Three reasons Biden might keep deep African-American support
For Joe Biden, the Southern states that come after the earliest Democratic nominating contests are seen as something of a firewall. Even if the former vice president struggles early, primaries in states such as South Carolina, which follows close on the heels of New Hampshire, have sizable African-American populations and […] Read more »
Pete Buttigieg’s minority problem isn’t just about name recognition
… Buttigieg is clearly one of the — if not the only — frontrunners in the Iowa Democratic contest right now. Yet, some (like myself) have wondered aloud about whether Buttigieg will be able to translate his Iowa success into more diverse states like Nevada and South Carolina. That’s because […] Read more »
Democrats are vying to win over the youngest generation of their most important voting bloc
Former vice president Joe Biden is still ahead in polls of black voter support, but his competitors are trying their best to eat away at that lead by looking to a segment of the black community not quite sold on him: young black voters. … According to an October study […] Read more »