… The prospect that Trump could win the Electoral College and the presidency while losing the popular vote a second time — something no president has done — underscores the extent to which the 2020 election is emerging as a stress test for a core pillar of American democracy: the […] Read more »
Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s cautionary tale ahead of the 2020 presidential election
Democrats filed suit against Republicans in 1981 for allegedly sending armed patrols to polling stations during the New Jersey gubernatorial race. Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images Mark Krasovic, Rutgers University Newark In the history of voter suppression in the United States – including attempts to stop Black and Latino people […] Read more »
Common Ground of the American People
Defying conventional wisdom about a polarized electorate, a report based on in-depth surveys of more than 80,000 Americans shows that majorities from both parties agree on nearly 150 key policy positions across more than a dozen top policy areas. The research suggests that Americans are eager for their elected representatives […] Read more »
America is in a parenting crisis. The party that solves it will reap huge rewards.
America is in a parenting crisis. The financial costs of child care are soaring; most new parents don’t take the amount of leave they want; and many face the impossible task of balancing full-time work and caring for their children. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated these problems, with many […] Read more »
GOP women warn of eroding support among female voters amid a ‘gender chasm’
A growing number of Republican women are sounding the alarm about continuing loss of support for President Trump and the GOP among female voters ahead of the November election, warning that the party is in danger of permanently alienating women if it doesn’t change course. Trump’s flailing response to the […] Read more »
Trump voters haven’t been driven by racism. If anything, it has repelled them.
Unprecedented numbers of Americans — including a growing share of Republicans and independents — recognize racial injustice as pervasive, support police reform and back the protests against police brutality. Apparently oblivious to this emerging consensus, Trump is trying to run a Nixon-style “law-and-order” campaign for the 2020 election. And it […] Read more »