With just over a year to go before the 2022 midterm elections, Democrats at the top of the ticket hold narrow leads over their likely GOP opponents, according to a new poll released Sunday by The Nevada Independent. Gov. Steve Sisolak holds leads well within the margin of error over […] Read more »
Trauma and Trump make Asian American voters a more cohesive bloc, new poll reveals
In 2020, amid a year of violence and fear, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were hypervisible – and that changed the way they look at themselves and politics, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. As the global pandemic took hold, then-President Donald Trump started using xenophobic terms to blame […] Read more »
The Texas Border Shift
Most of the country saw modest shifts in vote margin from 2016 to 2020. The Texas border stands out for the intensity and breadth of the pro-Republican shift. Miami is also attention getting, but here we focus on Texas. It isn’t that the Texas border counties gave majorities to Trump. […] Read more »
Democrats Could Be Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t
… Democrats are correct when they say that many of the individual elements in the pair of spending packages—the more traditional, physical-infrastructure bill, and the expansion of the social safety net via reconciliation—score well when tested in polls. If enacted, they’ll surely prove as popular as Obamacare. After all, while […] Read more »
New Initiative Explores Deep, Persistent Divides Between Biden and Trump Voters
The University of Virginia Center for Politics has partnered with Project Home Fire, a new initiative dedicated to finding common ground in American politics, on an innovative new data analytics and polling project to explore the social, political, and psychological divides between those who voted for Donald Trump and those […] Read more »
Trump and the pursuit of complete and total control
Donald Trump didn’t win reelection in 2020, but he appears to have learned some lessons that would make him a more “effective” — and dangerous — president if he runs for and wins a second term in 2024. … Now, according to The Wall Street Journal, Trump seems to be […] Read more »