After we recently wrote about the priorities of Democrats and Republicans using data from the Democracy Fund + U.C.L.A. Nationscape Project, readers had two main questions for us. The answers may provoke more questions. CONT. Lynn Vavreck (UCLA), John Sides (Vanderbilt) & Chris Tausanovitch (UCLA), New York Times Read more »
Tracing The Roots Of A Partisan Impeachment
President Trump was impeached Wednesday night on two articles of impeachment — one for abuse of power, the other for obstruction of Congress. And they both got more votes than either of the other two impeachments in American history. But it was also partisan — zero Republicans broke ranks, and […] Read more »
Trump’s Reelection Is Sitting on a Knife’s Edge
The bitter battle that culminated in last night’s House vote to impeach President Donald Trump foreshadows an even more dramatic struggle to come over his reelection. It’s a contest that will likely feature a historic mobilization of each party’s coalition, and will test widening satisfaction about the economy against widespread […] Read more »
Poll: Iowa and NH are great places for the 1st presidential contests. Also terrible ones.
Iowa and New Hampshire are great places to hold the opening presidential caucuses and primary, most Americans agree. Also, terrible ones. That was the decidedly mixed message from a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll exploring whether the two small states, both overwhelmingly white, should continue to hold the out-sized influence on […] Read more »
Why Impeachment Proceedings Against Trump Might Not Change The Electoral Landscape
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Nathan Gonzales from Inside Elections about why the impeachment hearings and vote are not a game changer for the electoral landscape. All Things Considered, NPR Read more »
2019: The Year of Stability
The House of Representatives made history Wednesday, impeaching a president for just the third time. It made for an occasion that was both momentous and monotonous. Momentous in that Donald J. Trump appears likely to be the first impeached president who will nonetheless appear on general election ballots after that […] Read more »