… I’m not going to give you one of those grandiose overviews of the Democratic primary. Maybe we’ll be more in the mood for one after this week’s debate. Nope, I just want to make a narrower point: Joe Biden is still doing reasonably well in the polls. Elizabeth Warren’s […] Read more »
Voters Aren’t Buying Trump’s Promises of a Health Care Plan
New polling shows that most of the public does not think President Trump has or will have a health care plan. … The results of the latest Kaiser Family Foundation’s tracking poll, which will be out Tuesday, show that most Republicans are sticking with Trump, but few other voters are […] Read more »
The Clinton Legacy: Impeachment Hurts the President
Conventional wisdom holds that the Republican Party suffered a big political penalty for impeaching Bill Clinton in 1998. But that’s not quite right. Republicans paid a modest, short-term penalty, while the costs to the Democratic Party appear to have been larger and longer-lasting. … Two decades ago, the Republicans’ decision […] Read more »
Will age be a major factor in determining the Democratic nominee?
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver looks at what polling says about the impact of age on the 2020 election. This Week, ABC News Read more »
How ‘White Guilt’ in the Age of Trump Shapes the Democratic Primary
… For years, prospective Democratic nominees came to Iowa to talk ethanol and pork subsidies and saved any rhetoric about the injustice of racial profiling for crowds in South Carolina and Nevada — the only early voting states where black and Latino voters made up a significant portion of the […] Read more »
CBS News Battleground Tracker: Warren extends lead across early states, New Hampshire and draws even with Biden in Iowa
Early-state Democratic voters say President Trump’s allegations against Joe Biden have not affected their views of Biden and largely think they aren’t true. Even so, it’s Elizabeth Warren who continues to draw support from Democrats. She has extended the aggregate lead she had in this poll last month across the […] Read more »