The first members of the huge baby-boom generation in the U.S. have reached retirement age in recent years, and these older boomers are retiring in large numbers, just as Americans in their mid- to late 60s did a few years earlier. While about eight in 10 boomers in their early […] Read more »
Changing Coalitions: Will GOP Have to Toss Its Medicare Plan?
More gray. Less green. Continuing the reversal of historic political alignments, House Republicans in the new Congress represent most districts with the highest share of seniors–as well as a narrow majority of seats where the median income lags below the national average, a Next America analysis has found. This counterintuitive […] Read more »
The Megyn Kelly Moment
… For Roger Ailes, the Fox News Channel chairman and chief executive, who put her there and raised her in his television image, Kelly has become his “breakthrough artist,” the one who will define Fox’s future. … How does Ailes maintain the aging conservative base that has allowed him to […] Read more »
Where Obama Has—and Has Not—Recovered
President Obama heads into his State of the Union address tonight enjoying reviving approval ratings from key groups in his coalition but still facing entrenched skepticism from the older and blue-collar whites who were crucial to GOP victories last fall. … Whatever the economy’s condition, African-Americans, Hispanics, and college-educated white […] Read more »
President Obama is back at 50% approval. Here’s how.
President Obama’s approval rating just hit 50 percent for the first time since the spring of 2013. That’s the biggest — and most surprising — takeaway from a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. … The gains are pretty even across the board, but the biggest are among Democrats (10 points), […] Read more »
Demography Is Not Destiny for Democrats
Growing racial diversity is transforming a lengthening list of congressional districts, but not providing as much political benefit to House Democrats as many in both parties expected only a few years ago, a Next America analysis has found. … Still, Democratic strategists remain cautiously optimistic that continued minority population growth […] Read more »