Was the 2016 election a one-off — a once-in-a-lifetime contest between two fundamentally flawed contestants? Or, was it a realignment election; the end of Democratic dominance in the industrial Midwest as well as the loosening of the Republican grip on southwestern states like Arizona and Texas? Was Clinton the outlier […] Read more »
Why Texas Is Nearing Battleground Status (It’s Not Just About Beto)
The dream of a “Blue Texas” has captured the imagination of Democrats for nearly a decade, and Beto O’Rourke has come closer than anyone to making a statewide victory a reality. His strengths as a candidate in his narrow loss in a 2018 Senate race against Ted Cruz — by […] Read more »
The capitalism vs. socialism debate: Bring it on
Capitalism vs. socialism. It sounds like a debate topic better suited to a ’60s Berkley lecture hall than a 21st-century presidential campaign taking place in a robust, capitalist economy. … The latest survey by Winning the Issues (Feb. 28-March 1) asked people to choose which economic system — capitalism or […] Read more »
Democrats try to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
… So how have the Democrats done in positioning the party for next year’s election? Since the midterms, the party has done an abysmal job of making the 2020 contest about Trump. The leaders of the Corbyn wing of the party — including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida […] Read more »
Anti-Semitism is linked to public opinion about Israel. But so is Islamophobia.
… In response to concerns about anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bias in the debate about Ilhan Omar, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim discrimination “as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contrary to the values and aspirations of the United States.” This debate also […] Read more »
The battle over the voting booth is just beginning
The unanimous vote among House Democrats to approve sweeping political overhaul legislation last week opened what is likely to be a sustained confrontation over access to the voting booth that could reshape not only the competition between the political parties but also the racial division of power in an irreversibly […] Read more »