… In the past year or so, data have come in regarding how my own generation, often called Generation Y, or the millennials, has adapted to our once-in-a-lifetime financial crisis — the one that battered career prospects, drove hundreds of thousands into the shelter of schools or parents’ basements and […] Read more »
Growing Minority Vote and GOP
… Two things have happened over the last 20 years in the U.S. First, the non-white population has grown. The white, non-Hispanic population has shrunken to about 65% today from about 75% in 1990. Second, and crucial for national elections, that population has grown in states that are also growing. […] Read more »
Republicans Admit They Have Problems, But Can They Fix Them?
They say that the first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem. The RNC, with the release of their 100 page critical examination of their failures in the 2012 election, has taken that big step. … However, identifying a problem is one thing. Fixing it is another. Even […] Read more »
Citizenship, Values and Cultural Concerns: What Americans Want From Immigration Reform
The accompanying research report, Citizens, Values and Cultural Concerns: What Americans Want from Immigration Reform, authored by PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones, PRRI Research Director Daniel Cox, and PRRI Research Associate Juhem Navarro-Rivera, along with Brookings Senior Fellows E.J. Dionne, Jr. and William Galston, explores general sentiment toward immigrant communities, […] Read more »
Rand Paul Is Not the Answer to Republicans’ Youth Problem
… Despite all the talk about courting Latinos, the Republican Party has a bigger, generational challenge. … Republicans will probably underperform among millennial voters in perpetuity for historical reasons: 18-29 year old voters came of age during the prosperous Clinton and disastrous Bush years. But the GOP certainly isn’t helping […] Read more »
A good start on that GOP makeover? Evolve on gay marriage.
Even as a fresh round of soul searching has broken out among Republicans about how to repair the GOP’s problems, a new Washington Post poll finds that public support for gay marriage — a key area where GOP Congressional officials continue to refuse to evolve — is at an all […] Read more »