The 2020 U.S. presidential election is rapidly coming into view – and so is the electorate that will determine its outcome. While demographic changes unfold slowly, it’s already clear that the 2020 electorate will be unique in several ways. Nonwhites will account for a third of eligible voters – their […] Read more »
Inside Democratic coalition, three groups show fissures
The last few years have revealed more than a few cracks in the Republican Party, but the Democrats have divisions lurking in their voter coalition as well and this week’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows where some of those fault lines lie. To better understand the various segments of […] Read more »
Why Trump’s border wall is not just a wall
It’s uncertain whether President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall will ever separate the US from Mexico. But it’s already clear that the wall is reinforcing the fundamental fault line separating blue from red America. Opinions about the wall have become deeply interwoven with attitudes about the larger changes in culture, […] Read more »
How Kamala Harris Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
Sen. Kamala Harris of California, who officially said she is running for president in an announcement on Good Morning America on Monday, has the potential to be among the strongest contenders in the 2020 Democratic field. There may be no other candidate who better embodies how the modern Democratic Party […] Read more »
Generation Z Looks a Lot Like Millennials on Key Social and Political Issues
No longer the new kids on the block, Millennials have moved firmly into their 20s and 30s, and a new generation is coming into focus. Generation Z – diverse and on track to be the most well-educated generation yet – is moving toward adulthood with a liberal set of attitudes […] Read more »
All or Nothing: How State Politics Became a Winner-Take-All World
… All over the country, chambers that once were up for grabs are now firmly controlled by one party holding what resembles an open-ended lease. … In American state politics these days, power results not from a contest of ideas, but rather from demographic identities. The country is divided along […] Read more »