According to a recent story in The New York Times, in a meeting with the president last month to discuss the party’s messaging, Speaker Nancy Pelosi came armed with an alternate slogan to replace the “Build Back Better” phrase, which some Democrats call “toxic” these days. Pelosi’s substitute? One of […] Read more »
Code Red on the Democratic Brand
Politics is not a complicated game to win. Either your party fields compelling candidates that voters mostly like or your party offers a compelling and relevant enough agenda that voters mostly support. The one thing a party can’t do and expect to win is suffer double-digit deficits to the other […] Read more »
Biden states will decide who controls the Senate
The one silver lining for Democrats on an otherwise stormy political horizon may be the map of states with competitive Senate races this fall. All of the Senate contests both sides consider the most competitive will be in states that Joe Biden won in 2020, albeit in most cases narrowly. […] Read more »
Biden’s Ukraine leadership may not help Democrats at the ballot box
President Joe Biden has maintained impressive unity among Western allies in leading the strong coordinated response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. At home, Biden has gratified Democratic campaign strategists lately with tactical adjustments. He smacked away the far left’s counterproductive “defund the police” slogan in his State […] Read more »
The polarization in today’s Congress has roots that go back decades
It’s become commonplace among observers of U.S. politics to decry partisan polarization in Congress. Indeed, a Pew Research Center analysis finds that, on average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years. But the dynamics behind today’s congressional polarization have been […] Read more »
A Potential Rarity in American Politics: A Fair Congressional Map
For years, America’s congressional map favored Republicans over Democrats. But that may not remain the case for long. In a departure from a decades-long pattern in American politics, this year’s national congressional map is poised to be balanced between the two parties, with a nearly equal number of districts that […] Read more »