… With a full embrace of liberal positions on hot-button issues from immigration to health care, taxes and abortion, the Democratic presidential field has effectively abandoned the strategy that propelled the party to a landslide victory in the 2018 midterms, when Democrats flipped 43 GOP House seats and won 31 […] Read more »
Data shows Twitter primary differs from the ‘real world’
As voters and activists try to make sense of the enormous Democratic primary field, Twitter, where real-time “analysis” flows 24-7, has emerged as a go-to news portal. But the narrative that is emerging there may be missing the larger story of the 2020 campaign, at least up to now. CONT. […] Read more »
Who can beat Trump? The answer is no clearer after Miami.
Who can beat President Trump? For Democratic voters, that is the overriding question as they survey their field of 2020 presidential candidates. Yet the first round of the party’s debates left the answer even more muddled than before everyone arrived in Miami. … The two nights and four hours of […] Read more »
Liberal Democrats Ruled the Debates. Will Moderates Regain Their Voices?
The Democratic debates this past week provided the clearest evidence yet that many of the leading presidential candidates are breaking with the incremental politics of the Clinton and Obama eras, and are embracing sweeping liberal policy changes on some of the most charged public issues in American life, even at […] Read more »
The First Democratic Debate In Five Charts
Thursday night was the conclusion of the first Democratic primary debate, and, like everybody else, we’re trying to make sense of what we watched. Some candidates had breakout moments while others were pushed to the sidelines. But did these moments really make a difference to viewers? In an attempt to […] Read more »
Live Polling of the Debates: Good News for Harris, Warren, Biden, and Substance
While 20 Democratic presidential candidates debated over four hours on Wednesday and Thursday night, a group of 210 voters convened by leading party pollster Stanley Greenberg offered their live impressions, answering poll questions and participating in dial-testing to indicate their feelings about what was going on onstage, as it happened. […] Read more »