Here’s what last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions signify: Old America has conceded to the New America. The New America is the coalition that came to power with President Barack Obama in 2008 and gave him the winning majority. It’s a coalition of groups marginalized for most of U.S. history: […] Read more »
Ben Wattenberg, Author and Commentator, Dies at 81
Ben Wattenberg, an author, a PBS television commentator and a professed neoconservative who vainly urged his fellow Democrats to court the nation’s centrist voters at a time when the party was moving to the left, died Sunday in Washington. … In 1970, long before computer-generated models singled out soccer moms […] Read more »
Democrats Need to Give Voters a Reason to Participate
Democrats are well positioned leading into next year’s elections if they give their base, particularly unmarried women, a reason to turn out and vote. As this research demonstrates, the promise of an agenda that addresses the real economy of everyday Americans and—this is an equally important piece—also provides them with […] Read more »
Millennials see the GOP as old-fashioned and prejudiced. Here’s how to change that.
Review of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America (and How Republicans Can Keep Up) by Kristen Soltis Anderson … “It’s no secret that the GOP has had a hard time winning over the millennial generation — the newest voters in the electorate — and that this has made […] Read more »
Does Scott Walker Have What It Takes to Win in 2016?
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is widely viewed as a top-tier hopeful for the GOP presidential nomination. But it’s less clear he has the right profile to knock off the likely Democratic nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Walker’s strength in the nomination race comes from his positioning in […] Read more »
Hispanic vote drives election strategy
… At some point, elections are not about politics or policy; they are about math. He or she who gets the most votes wins, and Hispanics arguably are the most potent rising bloc in both Nevada and American politics. All other things being equal – and they rarely are – […] Read more »