The title of a new book, “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,” by the journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, sums up its thesis concisely: Biden is essentially president by accident. … This is a common thread in a lot of coverage of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary […] Read more »
As Democrats go hard left, Hispanics head to the center
The 2020 election was a surprise on many levels. President Donald Trump got much closer to reelection than most pundits predicted. The blue wave turned out to be a figment of the media’s and Democrats’ imagination. And Republicans did far better than expected down ballot and across the country. There […] Read more »
How Democrats can defy history in 2022
The huge voter turnout over the past three elections could scramble the usual dynamics of midterm voting — potentially providing Democrats their best chance to avoid losses next year that could cost them control of the House, the Senate or both. The president’s party has almost always lost ground in […] Read more »
Vaccinated Republicans are going out far more than vaccinated Democrats
There are fewer new cases of Covid-19 in the US in more than a year. The response from an increasing number of Americans has been to resume a lot of normal activities. This is consistent across polling data and real-world activities, such as flying. This step in the country’s return […] Read more »
For Biden, confronting Putin may have been easier than dealing with Republicans back in Washington
With confidence and elan, President Joe Biden rallied allies abroad last week around the viability of 21st century democracy. Proving it here at home will be harder. Members of the transatlantic coalition — at meetings of the Group of Seven, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union — […] Read more »
How mainstream Democrats are flexing their muscle in 2021
The first five months of President Joe Biden’s term show the moderate wing of the Democratic Party still has a lot of juice left. We see that in the Senate, where moderates like Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are standing in the way of […] Read more »