Hillary Clinton is struggling to make inroads among young Americans who overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primary, a worrisome sign as she tries to reassemble the coalition that twice propelled Barack Obama into the White House. Opinions of Clinton among young Americans vary by race and ethnicity, […] Read more »
The Impact of U.S. v. Texas on the Latino Electorate
Earlier today America’s Voice and Latino Decisions released poll results assessing Latino voters’ knowledge of and reaction to the Supreme Court’s U.S. v. Texas decision blocking President Obama’s authority to implement DAPA and to expand DACA. The poll surveyed 657 registered Latino voters using a mix on online and live […] Read more »
The Biggest Danger for Donald Trump: Florida
If demographics are destiny, Donald Trump’s political fate could very well be sealed in Florida. The big demographic threat to the Republican Party isn’t a “blue” Texas or Arizona or Georgia, but the possibility that Florida will follow Nevada and New Mexico to the left. It’s extremely hard for a […] Read more »
Hillary Clinton’s Lead Among Nonwhite Voters Surges
Hillary Clinton’s double-digit lead over Donald Trump in the latest national poll is significant, and her standing among minority voters is even more dramatic. An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday has Clinton leading among nonwhite voters by the biggest margin yet: 77 percent of nonwhite voters side with the […] Read more »
On Views of Race and Inequality, Blacks and Whites Are Worlds Apart
Almost eight years after Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s first black president – an event that engendered a sense of optimism among many Americans about the future of race relations – a series of flashpoints around the U.S. has exposed deep racial divides and reignited a national conversation about […] Read more »
The Republican Party’s White Strategy
… Although trump has broken with his party’s establishment on many issues, immigration has been the most central to his rise. … Until recently, immigration did not sharply divide the two national parties. In 1986, 42 percent of House Republicans, along with 64 percent of House Democrats, voted for a […] Read more »