… Demography as destiny underpins much of the Democrats’ optimism these days. That confidence is built on a foundation of census data and other trends that show a country that is becoming increasingly diverse and more culturally tolerant. The more Trump insults one group or another in this new America, […] Read more »
How America’s Demographic Revolution Reached The Church
Long the dominant group in American religious life, White Christians have fallen below a majority of the U.S. population—and they are moving to the right politically as they recede. The result is that, like race and age, religious affiliation marks a sharpening point of distinction between Republicans and Democrats, previously […] Read more »
Pollsters on 2016: Voters Will Be Angrier, Less Religious, More Diverse
The 2016 election will play out amid an electorate that is less religious, more diverse and angrier at political leaders than in 2008, the last open race for the White House, two pollsters told The Wall Street Journal CEO Council annual meeting on Tuesday in Washington. CONT. Aaron Zitner, Wall […] Read more »
Three key areas that give Republicans trouble in California
As Donald Trump and other Republicans talked tough on illegal immigration during last week’s presidential debate, an exasperated Jeb Bush noted that Hillary Clinton’s campaign aides were, right then, exchanging high-fives. He might have added: And Republican leaders in many states, like California, were once again despairing. CONT. Cathleen Decker, […] Read more »
Primary Colors: How Both Parties Clash With the General Electorate
From immigration to income inequality, it’s clear why the Republican and Democratic primary elections are playing out in such starkly different ways: Both parties are talking to electorates that look very little like each other – or like the general election voters who won’t go to the polls until next […] Read more »
Why 2016 could be shattering for Republicans
Election Day 2016 will produce a shattering crash larger than anything the pundits anticipate because the revolutionary economic and social changes occurring in the United States have now pushed both the burgeoning new majority and the conservative Republicans’ counterrevolution beyond their tipping points. CONT. Stanley B. Greenberg (Greenberg Quinlan Rosner […] Read more »