After one year in office and his rehearsed and scripted reset press conference, will President Biden find a political bottom and turn his public opinion decline around? This is the fundamental question for the Biden Democrats for 2022. They have hardened and unanimously united the Republican base against them. They […] Read more »
Democrats Moved the Filibuster Overton Window
Democrats and civil-rights advocates were devastated when Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema blocked a change in Senate rules last night and allowed a Republican filibuster to kill crucial voting-rights legislation. But for activists, the long battle over voter protections hasn’t been entirely in vain: It’s fundamentally changed the center of […] Read more »
Five Warning Signs for Biden as He Marks First Anniversary in Office
Key Points• As Joe Biden marks a year in office, he has found himself in a perilous position, and there are no obvious signs of improvement.• Among Biden’s challenges is an apparently weakened position among nonwhite voters as well as younger voters, two immensely important pillars of the Democratic coalition.• […] Read more »
Why Millions Think It Is Trump Who Cannot Tell a Lie
Why is Donald Trump’s big lie so hard to discredit? This has been a live question for more than a year, but inside it lies another: Do Republican officials and voters actually believe Trump’s claim that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election by corrupting ballots — the same ballots that […] Read more »
Voting rights or the filibuster?
It’s neither a bumper sticker nor a rallying cry, but it’s a fact: One cannot claim loyalty to the text, history and principles of our Constitution while valuing preservation of the filibuster above protecting voting rights. … Writing for a Supreme Court majority, no less a conservative than Justice Antonin […] Read more »
CBS News poll analysis: Who wants to end or keep the filibuster?
Even as many Democrats tend to rank the economy, inflation and COVID-19 among top issues, most Democrats do say it is also “very important” to pass a voting rights bill, and two-thirds of Americans overall say it’s at least somewhat important, as this week’s CBS News poll showed. Meanwhile, a […] Read more »