If and when Republicans gain a modest number of House and Senate seats in November 2014, the Beltway set may be tempted to interpret the results as a sixth-year itch rebuke of President Obama on everything from IRS/DOJ/Benghazi to rocky implementation of the Affordable Care Act. To do so would […] Read more »
Breadwinner Moms
A record 40% of all households with children under the age of 18 include mothers who are either the sole or primary source of income for the family, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The share was just 11% in 1960. […] Read more »
Dems face demographic woes, too
Democrats’ national demographic advantage has been a cause for celebration in our party and for deep concern in the GOP. At the presidential level, and in a number of states, solid Democratic support from African-Americans, Latinos, younger voters and seculars has created serious problems for Republicans — problems that are […] Read more »
‘Nation’s supply of cool kids who smoke is reaching a perilous low’ — and other charts that will destroy your faith in humanity
Earlier this week, Rob Wile of Business Insider posted his graph-heavy opus: “31 Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity.” Naturally, we here at Wonkblog were all eager to see the results. But we’d quibble a bit with Wile’s interpretations of the data. His charts all struck us as horrible […] Read more »
Virginia’s Shift Could Break Streak
Politics is full of long-term patterns – if this happens, that follows – and one enduring example has been the relationship between presidential elections and the Virginia gubernatorial races that follow the year after. Since 1976, the following pattern has held up: whichever party wins the White House, the other […] Read more »
Why Class Warfare is Working
… We recently conducted a survey in ten competitive congressional districts in California to gain better insight into Latino voting behavior and how Republicans might appeal to this growing sector of the electorate. The most important finding in this data – and in other data we have seen – is […] Read more »