The whole thing started with this public health institute in Maryland called the de Beaumont Foundation. They’d been noticing with alarm that not only were Trump voters reluctant to get the vaccine, they were stubbornly so. Other hesitant groups seemed to be coming around to getting the vaccine, but not […] Read more »
The Virginia governor’s race will foreshadow the political future
The Virginia governor’s race, which historically offers a check against the national outcome of the previous year’s presidential election, is shaping up as a microcosm of our current politics. On the Democratic side, an establishment figure known as a glad-handing pragmatist leads the primary field, even as he’s been forced […] Read more »
Democrats Play ‘Moneyball’ for Long-Term Success
… Clearly, this country is narrowly and bitterly divided. Americans are increasingly voting in a parliamentary fashion, picking the same party up and down the ballot, with individual candidates and their personal brands meaning and mattering less. Most are locked in with their team, with only a narrow but pivotal […] Read more »
Study Shows Anti-Racist Messages Hurt Democrats
Beginning about a decade ago, the Democratic Party went through two important changes related to racism. The first is that the backlash against Barack Obama made far more white liberals aware of how deeply racial resentment inspired American conservatism. (Black people had by and large realized this all along.) The […] Read more »
Young Americans overwhelmingly approve of the job President Biden is doing
A national poll of America’s 18-to-29 year olds released today by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School shows that despite the state of our politics, hope for America among young people is rising dramatically, especially among people of color. As more young Americans are likely to be politically […] Read more »
The New Swing Voters
The last election’s most unexpected twist is framing one of the most urgent questions confronting both parties today: What explains Donald Trump’s improved performance among Latino voters? The president who began his first national campaign by calling Mexicans “rapists,” drug smugglers, and criminals; who labored to build a wall across […] Read more »