I Ran Stacey Abrams’s Campaign. Black Voters Powered Us to Near Victory.

… Something nearly unthinkable happened in Georgia in 2018. More black voters, more Asian-American/Pacific Island voters and more Latino voters turned out than in the 2016 presidential election. Sure, turnout was up everywhere and at presidential levels in many states. But Georgia was the only state where midterm turnout was […] Read more »

Gerrymandering is alive and well. The coming battle will be bigger than ever.

The gerrymandering wars are heading South. A number of Southern states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, are prime targets for partisan gerrymandering as the congressional redistricting process gets underway after next year’s statehouse elections, experts said. … America’s decennial congressional redistricting process — when roughly even-sized House districts […] Read more »

Notes on the State of Politics

Key Points •  The Democratic primary race has been very stable, with the biggest exception being Elizabeth Warren’s rise to become one of the clear frontrunners. •  Donald Trump is attracting primary challengers, but his standing within the GOP remains strong. •  Sen. Johnny Isakson’s (R-GA) pending resignation expands the […] Read more »

‘They’re afraid’: Suburban voters in red states threaten GOP’s grip on power

Republicans face a reckoning in the red-state suburbs that have long been a bedrock for the party, propelled by the stormy confluence of President Trump’s searing racial attacks, economic turbulence and frustration with government inaction after last weekend’s deadly mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. The GOP lost its House […] Read more »