Public pans Republicans’ latest approach to replacing Affordable Care Act

In strategy and substance, the American public disagrees with the course that President Trump and congressional Republicans are pursuing to replace the Affordable Care Act with conservative policies, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Large majorities oppose the ideas at the heart of the most recent GOP negotiations […] Read more »

Big Turnout for Ossoff Surpassed Recent Democratic Benchmarks

Jon Ossoff benefited from an unusually strong turnout in the first round of voting in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District last week, surpassing all recent benchmarks for Democratic turnout in an off-year election, according to an Upshot analysis of newly released voting data. … The election in Georgia’s Sixth is only […] Read more »

Why Republicans Don’t Fear a Shutdown, But Should

For many Republicans, it’s a fairly simple calculation: There was a supposedly catastrophic government shutdown in 2013 and the GOP gained 13 House seats a year later. So what’s the big deal if the government shuts down again? With another funding deadline on the horizon, selective memory loss could have […] Read more »

Despite Trump’s Low Numbers, Dem Surge Is No Guarantee

Democrats may be feeling vindicated by President Donald Trump’s bumpy first 100 days in office, but they still have work to do if they hope to turn antipathy towards the president into a decisive rebuke of the GOP at the polls in 2018. A new poll from NBC News and […] Read more »