Republicans once dominated California. This year, GOP candidates are limping toward the finish line. Last week, independents surpassed Republicans to become the second-largest bloc of registered voters in the state after Democrats. And after Tuesday’s unusual “jungle” primary, the GOP might have missed its shot at the governor’s mansion and […] Read more »
GOP candidates echo Trump on immigration as president transforms party in his image
Leading Republican candidates are depicting many undocumented immigrants as criminals and endorsing a proposed wall on the Mexican border, adopting President Trump’s hard-line stance and alarming some who fear the GOP is out of step with a rapidly diversifying nation. The party’s increasingly aggressive tone on the issue represents a […] Read more »
Democrats Hope an Asian Influx Will Help Turn Orange County Blue
… “Asians,” said Sukhee Kang, who became the first Korean-American to run a major American city when he was elected mayor of Irvine in 2008, “are good for business.” Whether Asians are also good for votes is one of the biggest political questions driving this year’s midterm races in Orange […] Read more »
The surprising way gun violence is dividing America
On average, there are 276 gun homicides a week in America. There are 439 gun suicides. All told, there are, on average, nearly 1,200 incidents involving gun violence, every week, in America. This landscape of gun violence — suicides, homicides, mass shootings, accidents — is not evenly distributed. Instead, it […] Read more »
U.S. population keeps growing, but House of Representatives is same size as in Taft era
The U.S. House of Representatives has one voting member for every 747,000 or so Americans. That’s by far the highest population-to-representative ratio among a peer group of industrialized democracies, and the highest it’s been in U.S. history. And with the size of the House capped by law and the country’s […] Read more »
America’s graying population in 3 maps
Where do baby boomers live? oneinchpunch/shutterstock.com Peter Rogerson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York The U.S. population has changed substantially in the last half century, growing by nearly 63 percent. Perhaps the two most prominent demographic changes over the past 50 years relate to age. In 1968, […] Read more »