Joe Biden’s remarkable change of fortune in the presidential race is coinciding with Senate Democrats’ growing optimism that they can win control of the upper chamber in this year’s elections. Those hopes had dimmed when Bernie Sanders emerged as a leading contender to become the party’s presidential nominee. With the […] Read more »
Upcoming primaries present Biden with a path to nomination
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 run for the White House has been predicated on his ability to energize the electorate and bring new voters to the polls. But results from primary states so far suggest that increases in the vote up to now have not helped Sanders. In fact, the […] Read more »
Biden Outperforming Sanders In Counties With Lower Incomes, More Voters Of Color
A month after the Iowa caucuses, Super Tuesday offered up the first look at how a diverse swath of the country could vote in the Democratic presidential primary race. Now that more than 1,200 counties across 18 states have voted, a clearer picture is emerging of whom different segments of […] Read more »
Suburbanites are voting and that’s good news for Joe Biden
Nearly two years after suburbanites helped drive a Democratic surge, there are clear signs these voters are engaged and primed to vote Democratic again. Turnout in the Democratic presidential primary has been strong across suburban counties, from northern Virginia to Southern California, that fueled the 2018 wave. In several key […] Read more »
Beware the Deadly Contagion Spread by Blowhards
… As we wrestle with the new coronavirus, let’s learn lessons from the 2009-10 H1N1 swine flu outbreak in the United States. At first, polls back then showed that both Democrats and Republicans were about equally concerned with the outbreak. That makes sense: Why should our political party shape how […] Read more »
Reuters/Ipsos poll: Americans divided on party lines over risk from coronavirus
Americans who now find themselves politically divided over seemingly everything are now forming two very different views of another major issue: the dangers of the new coronavirus. Democrats are about twice as likely as Republicans to say the coronavirus poses an imminent threat to the United States, according to a […] Read more »