Joe Biden has a big lead over President Donald Trump, the August IBD/TIPP Poll showed. The other top three Democratic presidential contenders enjoyed smaller 2020 election leads over the GOP incumbent. Meanwhile, Trump’s job approval fell to a six-month-low 40% in August. CONT. Jed Graham, Investor’s Business Daily Read more »
Policy Fissures in the Debates Aren’t What Divide Voters
Hot-button ideological issues took center stage in last week’s Democratic debates, as candidates fought over things like “Medicare for all” and the decriminalization of illegal border crossings. But while Democratic candidates might be divided by ideology and policy, Democratic voters mostly are not. The Democratic electorate is not clearly or […] Read more »
The Republican Party has long been the party of stupid. Now Democrats have joined it.
… Liberated for two years from the compromises demanded of a governing party, Democrats have emerged from the wilderness enamored with a variety of big policy proposals that are deeply unpopular and completely unpractical. … Some Democrats appear to have internalized two contradictory lessons from 2016. They know that Donald […] Read more »
Where I Think The Candidates Stand After The Second Debate
I’m writing this on Thursday morning, before there’s much, if any, polling available that reflects how Democrats’ preferences changed following the two-night presidential debate this week. But even before the debate, some candidates had been on the move in the three weeks since my last comprehensive assessment of the Democratic […] Read more »
Biden’s Rivals Helped Him More Than He Helped Himself
After two nights of spirited debate in Detroit, many Democrats may be feeling anxious: Their 2020 frontrunner didn’t entirely mollify concerns about his political skills, and his three major rivals positioned themselves in ways that could leave the party vulnerable in the general election. … Biden’s mixed performance yesterday highlighted […] Read more »
The second Democratic debate: Opening up the centrist lane
Ever since the 2018 election, the storyline around the Democratic Party has been at odds with the facts. The Democratic Party is, as it has been for many decades now, a center-left party and not a left-wing party in the style of European political parties. In the first Democratic debates […] Read more »