Facing a bleak electoral landscape after 2016, the brightest spot for Democrats may be President Trump’s continued weakness with members of the Millennial generation—who are poised to surpass the more Republican-leaning baby boomers in 2020 as the largest generation of eligible voters. Polls early in his presidency consistently show Trump […] Read more »
How the Internet Threatens Democracy
As the forces of reaction outpace movements predicated on the ideal of progress, and as traditional norms of political competition are tossed aside, it’s clear that the internet and social media have succeeded in doing what many feared and some hoped they would. They have disrupted and destroyed institutional constraints […] Read more »
Ordering Vindaloo or Hunting for Venison? How You Vote
… As a political scientist, I’ve been asking people about their experiences with people who are different from them. In 2008, I wrote a series of questions to measure cosmopolitanism. I asked seven questions about travel, sports and food to tap into behaviors that expose people to varying levels of […] Read more »
The Democratic Party is facing a demographic crisis
Musa al-Gharbi, Columbia University In 2008, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama outperformed his predecessors John Kerry and Al Gore with virtually every single demographic group, handily defeating his Republican rival John McCain. This success spread to down-ballot races as well. Democrats expanded control over the House and the Senate, and […] Read more »
A Democratic pollster talks about how her party lost touch
As part of an effort to understand the state of the Democratic Party — both inside and outside Washington — in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, I am embarking on an occasional series of email conversations with people who will be part of what comes next for the party. […] Read more »
Making Voter Pie
There has been a compelling pie chart circulating on Facebook and Twitter, showing the percentage who voted for Trump or Clinton, or who didn’t vote, or weren’t eligible. … The problem is … well, there are a couple problems. CONT. Daniel Laurison (Swarthmore) & Dan Hirschman (Brown), Scatterplot Read more »