… For years, prospective Democratic nominees came to Iowa to talk ethanol and pork subsidies and saved any rhetoric about the injustice of racial profiling for crowds in South Carolina and Nevada — the only early voting states where black and Latino voters made up a significant portion of the […] Read more »
The Banality of Bigotry
… To be blunt, racism is not typically dramatic and ostentatious. It is most often banal—a mundane, omnipresent fact of life that is embedded in the daily habits and routines of our society. Despite the rhetoric that likens prejudice to a violent assault, racism is, in its most consequential form, […] Read more »
Rising Secularism and the Vanishing Latinx Republicans
In 2004 the exit polls reported that about 40 percent of Latinxs voted for George W. Bush’s reelection, the highest percentage ever of Latinxs for a Republican candidate. There was talk about Latinxs potentially helping the Republican Party become a more diverse organization and competitive among people of color. As […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Americans becoming more likely to say diversity enhances culture
In the last few years, Americans have become more likely to say the country’s increasing diversity enriches the nation’s culture, even as perceptions of how others experience racial discrimination have grown more divided by partisanship, according to new findings from a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. More than 8 in […] Read more »
Texas-Sized Opportunities, Part 3B: Is Texas a purple state now?
Is Texas a purple state now, and if not, how soon will it be? Continuing this series investigating the Lone Star State’s evolving partisanship, in this post I consider whether Texas could be competitive in the 2020 presidential election—and what, specifically, we might expect in terms of the impact of […] Read more »
How the Average Joe (and Jane) Could Wind Up Stopping Warren
Elizabeth Warren is gaining. She has breached 20 percent of the vote in recent national surveys and might hold a narrow lead in Iowa and New Hampshire. The prediction markets now consider her a clear favorite to win the nomination. It can be hard to see how her Democratic rivals […] Read more »