… Now nothing to do with race in America is politically normal. But the problem with suggesting that the G.O.P. shouldn’t aim for a white working class target because it would further racially polarize the country is twofold: First, it asks Republicans to basically play by rules that (victorious) Democratic […] Read more »
Living to 120 and Beyond: Americans’ Views on Aging, Medical Advances and Radical Life Extension
… The possibility that extraordinary life spans could become ordinary life spans no longer seems far-fetched. A recent issue of National Geographic magazine, for example, carried a picture of a baby on its cover with the headline: “This Baby Will Live To Be 120.” Yet many Americans do not look […] Read more »
Why the Republican coalition will still work in 2016
The faultline in the GOP revealed by the party’s internal debate on immigration reform – over whether a future Republican coalition should rely more heavily on whites than it already does, or should try and bring more Latinos into the fold to win the presidency – remains unresolved. What we […] Read more »
Why Latino voters won’t decide control of House in 2014
The Latino population is growing and Latino voters are becoming more influential. But that doesn’t mean they are going to decide who controls the House of Representatives in the 2014 elections. [cont.] Nathan Gonzales, Rothenberg Political Report Read more »
‘Missing Voters’ in the 2012 Election: Not so white, not so Republican
Do “missing white voters” offer hope for the Republican Party in future presidential elections? … We have argued that the “missing white voters” theory is unrealistic for several reasons. The most important is that it ignores the missing nonwhite voters — data on voter turnout in 2012 show that a […] Read more »
Americans Are Once Again Divided by Race
Like a lightning flash in a stormy sky, the Trayvon Martin case has illuminated the depth of the impasse between white and nonwhite America. But a similar dynamic looms less visibly behind Washington’s standoff between a Democratic coalition that relies on overwhelming support from minorities and a Republican coalition still […] Read more »