Democracy Corps has conducted two national polls in July and September to create a data base large enough to talk about different segments of the Republican Party, but it also provides us with a deep look at the emerging presidential race. (The data base includes 2,800 interviews.) We are also […] Read more »
The Risks of Impeachment for House Democrats
There’s an awful lot we don’t know yet: how public opinion will respond to the declassified whistleblower report, how many months an impeachment inquiry could take, what other wrongdoing it could reveal, and whether Dems will ultimately have 218 votes to pass articles of impeachment (at 235 seats, they can […] Read more »
Will Impeachment Reshape the 2020 Race?
… We are too early into the impeachment process to have any real idea of where it’s landing with voters. I wouldn’t put a lot of faith in any polling on impeachment that comes out this week. I understand the appetite to have data to prove/disprove one’s theory that this […] Read more »
Why I Was Wrong to Oppose Impeachment
Earlier this year on these pages I argued against moving forward with impeachment proceedings against President Trump. From my experience as press secretary to President Bill Clinton, I believed impeaching Mr. Trump could backfire politically for Democrats. More important, I believed impeachment proceedings at that time could have jeopardized a […] Read more »
The Risks of Impeachment Are Overblown
For months, the biggest hurdle for Democrats pushing the House to open impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump was the party leadership’s concern that such a process would politically endanger the members at the far edge of their majority, especially the 31 representing districts that voted for the president in 2016. […] Read more »
Red and Blue Voters Live in Different Economies
… Why does Trump spend so much time and energy keeping people off kilter? He has no interest in increasing the sense of security of his base. To do so would only make these voters more receptive to Democratic appeals. The relative material deprivation of many Republican voters that continued […] Read more »