Even as hearings that could lead to President Donald Trump’s impeachment heat up, a new Marquette University Law School poll of Wisconsin registered voters finds consistent, if sometimes modest, shifts in public opinion away from support of impeachment and toward supporting Trump in next year’s presidential election. CONT. Charles Franklin, […] Read more »
The Governors: Party Control Now Near Parity
Key Points • Following the 2019 elections, Republicans retain a narrow 26-24 edge in governorships. • But that’s a big shift from mid-2017, when Democrats held just 15. • Gubernatorial races are likelier to defy federal partisanship than House and Senate races. CONT. Kyle Kondik, Sabato’s Crystal Ball Party control […] Read more »
What Democrats Need to Know to Win Latinos
By the evidence of the Democratic primary so far, it’s clear that no leading Democratic candidate has any idea of how to engage Latinos. The Latino electorate has always been complex, a reality that Democratic candidates, consultants and election “experts” fail to grasp or simply ignore. … So where could […] Read more »
The Danger of Elizabeth Warren
… As much as the Warren program has mobilized many Democratic primary voters, polls show that significant numbers of swing voters — wavering Republicans repelled by President Trump and moderate to conservative Democrats — do not share Warren’s appetite for major structural change, preferring incremental change and the repair of […] Read more »
On Health Care, Democrats Trust Sanders the Most, but More People Support a Public Option than Medicare-for-All
Ahead of tonight’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders is the candidate most trusted on health care by Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, though the Medicare-for-all plan he has championed is significantly less popular than the “public option” approach put forward by some other candidates, the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll […] Read more »
PA-1: Democrats fear a suburban Philly congressional race is their ‘biggest recruiting failure in the country’
… GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Middletown Township survived the blue wave in last year’s midterm elections, which wiped out suburban Republicans across the country and delivered the speaker’s gavel to Nancy Pelosi. And while Democrats see Fitzpatrick as eminently beatable in 2020, there’s a problem: A top-tier challenger has […] Read more »