… It’s hard to act alone on major national problems with threadbare congressional majorities. Like all presidents, Biden won his office for multiple reasons. Many of his 81 million voters surely wanted him just to replace Donald Trump’s divisiveness with calm and tame the pandemic. But many others cheered his […] Read more »
How To Survive A Wave Election
We are still ten months from Election Day, but all signs point to a Democratic wipeout this fall. … Even so, there are candidates who are able to swim against the tide and succeed even as their colleagues fall short. Some candidates get lucky. Sometimes the political climate improves over […] Read more »
Senate Democrats May Have Further To Fall In 2024
My friends who are Democrats, particularly those of the more progressive variety, don’t seem to understand how deep they are in the political hole this year—and just how hard it might be to get out of it in 2024, particularly in the Senate. On a basic level, midterm elections are […] Read more »
No Consensus on Voting Rights vs. Filibuster
Would the country be better or worse off if Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in 2020? The nation is evenly divided on this hypothetical question, according to the Monmouth University Poll. Moreover, about 1 in 8 Americans believe both that Biden’s victory was only due to fraud and that there […] Read more »
Justice Breyer data from U.S. Supreme Court surveys, 2019-22
Even to the day it was reported that Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court, he consistently ranked as the justice whom the fewest Americans know. In results released on Wednesday, Jan. 26, before word of Breyer’s plans circulated, the Marquette Law School Poll’s Supreme Court Survey […] Read more »
Poll finds Trump and DeSantis drawing similar support, but each trailing Biden in possible 2024 matchups
A Marquette Law School Poll survey of adults nationwide finds that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump run equally well against Democratic President Joe Biden in hypothetical 2024 matchups, although Biden leads both Republicans. In a head-to-head matchup, DeSantis is supported by 33%, while Biden is supported […] Read more »