Today’s House vote to formalize the impeachment process, spelling out its rules and procedures, isn’t the impeachment vote. That vote — on whether to make Donald Trump only the third-ever president to be impeached — will likely come later, after the House holds public hearings. But Thursday’s vote still told […] Read more »
Election 2019 Mega-Preview: Political Conformity Seeks Further Confirmation
As Americans head to the polls next week, there are three major prizes at stake. Republicans currently control all three of these prizes: the governorships in Kentucky and Mississippi and majority control of the Virginia General Assembly, composed of the state House of Delegates and the state Senate. In an […] Read more »
USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll: Biden’s lead over Warren narrows in a turbulent Democratic field
Former vice president Joe Biden continues to lead a turbulent field for the Democratic presidential nomination, a national USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, but his margin over Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been slashed in half. And most Democratic voters say they could still change their minds. CONT. Susan Page, […] Read more »
The Border Between Red and Blue America
The suburbs are up for grabs. Anybody who’s paying attention to the 2020 election knows that. But there’s a more fundamental question: Just what are the suburbs anyway? In a statistical sense, they are surprisingly hard to define. The United States Census Bureau, the primary source of demographic data, doesn’t […] Read more »
Why the Economy Might Not Sway 2020 Voters
Americans’ views of the economy have become so hardened along partisan lines that the economy may matter less in next year’s presidential election than in the past. Both major political parties have emphasized the economy in the early stages of the campaign. Republicans hope that a rock-bottom unemployment rate and […] Read more »
Is a Democratic wave building for 2020?
… While the 2020 election is still more than a year off, Republicans ought to be concerned about some early signs, both at the national and state levels. Trump carried self-described independents in 2016, 46 percent to 42 percent, according to that year’s national exit polls, but the GOP lost […] Read more »