Nearly two years after suburbanites helped drive a Democratic surge, there are clear signs these voters are engaged and primed to vote Democratic again. Turnout in the Democratic presidential primary has been strong across suburban counties, from northern Virginia to Southern California, that fueled the 2018 wave. In several key […] Read more »
The primaries, the polls, and the political landscape ‘where only the last 72 hours seems to matter’
BuzzFeed News reporter Katherine Miller and CNN senior writer and analyst Harry Enten debrief about the past week of Democratic politics and how the stunning developments have been framed by the news media. Joe Biden’s victories were due “in part because people really wanted clarity in the field,” Miller says: […] Read more »
Sanders faces a challenging 30 days in his quest to defeat Biden
Joe Biden’s stunning turnaround in the past week has put pressure on Bernie Sanders to blunt or reverse the former vice president’s momentum. It won’t take long to determine whether the senator is up to the challenge. After the events of the past week, the one-on-one competition between Biden and […] Read more »
Biden and The Moderate Lane
Since Joe Biden’s stunning reversal of fortune coming out of South Carolina and into Super Tuesday, much has been said about Biden “consolidating the moderate lane,” now that Buttigieg, Bloomberg and Klobuchar have dropped out and endorsed him. He may have consolidated the moderate lane of presidential candidates and re-emerged […] Read more »
Inside the 3 days that remade the Democratic primary
At Mike Bloomberg’s midtown Manhattan campaign headquarters, a team of pollsters and analysts churned out multiple tranches of data each day on the state of the Democratic race. The sophisticated data operation was supposed to be the candidate’s not-so-secret weapon, giving Bloomberg an almost real-time look at voters’ preferences in […] Read more »
How Democrats Win In 2020
… With the biggest single day of the primaries behind us, pundits, politicos, and voters have begun to make sense of why exactly Joe Biden won big. According to Rachel Bitecofer of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, the answer is that a critical mass of […] Read more »