Americans have experienced one of the most turbulent postelection periods in recent memory. The 2020 presidential election was marked by record turnout amid new voting procedures in many parts of the country, a response to the coronavirus outbreak. In all, more than 155 million voters cast a ballot in the […] Read more »
California: Feinstein job ratings underwater for the first time in her tenure
For the first time in Dianne Feinstein’s long twenty-nine-year tenure, more Californians offer a negative than positive appraisal of the job she is doing in the U.S. Senate. The latest Berkeley IGS Poll finds that 45% of the state’s registered voters disapprove of Feinstein’s job performance overall, while just 35% […] Read more »
The GOP Cheat Code to Winning Back the House
Democrats face a daunting future of severe Republican gerrymandering that could flip control of the House in 2022 and suppress diverse younger generations’ political influence for years to come, according to a new study released today. Those findings underscore the stakes in Democrats’ efforts to pass national legislation combatting such […] Read more »
The Key to Forecasting Midterms: The Generic Ballot
Key Points• Given that Democrats only hold a single-digit majority in the House of Representatives, the 2022 midterms will be extremely competitive.• The generic ballot is the best tool for forecasting the House popular vote, and is especially useful in cycles without presidential races atop the ballot.• From 2004 to […] Read more »
How Long Can Democracy Survive QAnon and Its Allies?
Has a bloc of voters emerged that is not only alien to the American system of governance but toxic to it? “The central weakness of our political system now is the Republican Party,” Daniel Ziblatt, a political scientist at Harvard, said in an interview with Vox on Jan. 13, a […] Read more »
The need to convict
… The central question in this impeachment is not whether Trump will receive his just punishment, or Biden will be given a clear playing field. Rather it is whether the Senate will prioritize the future of democracy over the partisan interests of the moment. Whether senators will rebuild and reinforce […] Read more »