New information about the 2020 election reveals a growing shift among Latino voters away from the Democratic party. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with OpenLabs R&D researcher David Shor about it. NPR News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up […] Read more »
The New York mayoral primary is a reminder that Black and Latino voters are pragmatic
Primaries are about factional battles within parties, and Eric Adams won a major fight last week. The message from Adams’s win in New York City’s Democratic primary — echoing that of President Biden’s victory last fall — is that the Democratic Party is much more than the progressive left, even […] Read more »
The Big Question of the 2022 Midterms: How Will the Suburbs Swing?
Pursuing a bipartisan infrastructure deal and trumpeting a revived economy and progress against the pandemic, President Biden is trying to persuade the nation that Democrats are the party that gets things done. His message is aimed at holding on to a set of voters in next year’s midterms who could […] Read more »
A Game of Inches
For the last two years, COVID has upended almost every aspect of our lives. Not since 9/11 has a singular event dominated American life. At the same time, even as Americans gave low marks to then-President Trump for his handling of the pandemic and currently approve of President Biden’s job […] Read more »
The Democrats’ New Voting-Rights Obstacle
There is a gnawing anxiety among voting-rights advocates that even if Democrats find a way to roll back the Senate filibuster and pass new federal legislation safeguarding access to the ballot, the Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court might still strike it down. Last week’s Supreme Court ruling, in which […] Read more »
Where Both Parties Overperform in the House
Key Points• As we head into a once-a-decade redistricting cycle, we analyzed which states have one party that is currently overperforming in its House delegation compared to that party’s share of the 2020 presidential vote.• Overall, the GOP has notched notable overperformances in 19 medium-to-large-sized states, compared to 11 for […] Read more »