… Every state that elected a Republican candidate for Senate voted for Trump, and every state that elected a Democratic Senate candidate voted for Clinton. The 2016 Senate elections were the most nationalized ever. The amount of straight-ticket voting was unusual even for the highly polarized era we live in. […] Read more »
NBC/WSJ Poll: 2016 ‘An Election About Fear’
Whoever wins Tuesday’s presidential election will confront a nation that has grown increasingly pessimistic, divided and bitter about the state of American politics, according to the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of the 2016 presidential race. Sixty-four percent of likely voters say the election of the next president […] Read more »
A Changing America Faces A Stark Choice This Election
America is changing. It’s getting browner, as population growth stagnates among whites. And Millennials, who now outnumber baby boomers, are poised to become the dominant political generation of the next 35 years beginning in this election. … America is at an inflection point — politically and culturally. The crosscurrents of […] Read more »
Post-election battles likely as Trump supporters in no mood for compromise
Even before they pick a new president, voters are signaling a post-election landscape of continued stalemate on major issues such as health care, immigration and the Supreme Court. Hillary Clinton supporters are eager for compromise on top issues. Donald Trump backers want the government to stand on principle even if […] Read more »
Hillary Clinton’s Juggling Act
Has the Democratic Party joined the Republican Party in becoming inhospitable to the accommodation of intraparty factions? Hillary Clinton must juggle three competing interest groups: her party’s upscale pro-trade, globalist wing; its underdog minority wing; and organized labor. She is paying a price for her triple allegiance. CONT. Thomas B. […] Read more »
Breitbart, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump against the world
Donald Trump has said that he loves ill-educated people. And well he might, since they form part of the bedrock of the coalition that gave him the Republican presidential coalition. At this moment, two sayings make a relevant political point: (1) There is nothing more dangerous than ignorance in action; […] Read more »