… Whether they land on the pro or con side, Americans are thinking, talking, and doing politics much more since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Trump’s ubiquity is, in general, a massive liability for his party—given the state of the economy, the Republican House majority would […] Read more »
How Did Latinxs Vote in the Mid-Terms?
In the weeks leading up to the 2018 election, President Donald Trump ignored the pleas of his advisers to focus on the economy and instead chose to center immigration in his campaign messaging. … With many calling Trump’s messaging overtly anti-Latinx, all eyes were on Latinx voters as Americans cast […] Read more »
The Suburbs — All Kinds Of Suburbs — Delivered The House To Democrats
Throughout this election cycle, FiveThirtyEight and others wondered where Democrats could pick up House seats: Would it be in the 13 districts that Mitt Romney carried in 2012 but Hillary Clinton won in 2016? Or would it be in the 21 districts that Barack Obama carried in 2012 but Donald […] Read more »
Record LGBT support for Democrats in midterms, NBC News Exit Poll shows
Democratic candidates enjoyed strong support from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voters nationwide on Tuesday, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. LGBT people made up 6 percent of the electorate in the midterms, and 82 percent of them cast their ballot for their district’s Democratic candidate for the House […] Read more »
Democrats Favor Someone Other Than Pelosi as Speaker
Before the Democratic Party’s wins in Tuesday’s elections, which gave them majority control in the House of Representatives, U.S. Democrats said they would prefer to have a new leader in Congress. By 56% to 39%, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said Nancy Pelosi should be replaced as their leader in the […] Read more »
Suburban Voters Gave Democrats Their House Majority
Democrats retook the House of Representatives on the back of a suburban surge Tuesday, remaking a once rock-ribbed Republican bastion into a Democratic stronghold. … The suburbs aren’t monolithically blue in the same way America’s urban congressional districts are. … And the suburbs aren’t quite as red as rural America, […] Read more »