After Kamala Harris challenged Joe Biden’s past opposition to school busing in a nationally televised Democratic presidential debate, the former vice president who prides himself on strong relationships in the black community was in an unfamiliar place, playing defense on race. But Bebe Coker had a message for the man […] Read more »
Latino Voters Were A Force In Nevada In 2018. Who Will They Back In 2020?
Iowa will vote first in 2020, but Nevada, on Feb. 22, is first in the West — and the first with a lot of Latino voters. Journalist Humberto Sanchez explains the priorities of his state’s Hispanics. Weekend Edition Sunday, NPR Read more »
Don’t understand how Biden’s still ahead? You don’t know enough older black voters.
… Biden’s averaged 49% among all potential black Democratic primary voters in our last two CNN national polls. That’s good enough not only for a 35-point lead over his Democratic competitors, but good enough to beat all of them combined by about 10 points. But I think treating black voters […] Read more »
How a Divided Left Is Losing the Battle on Abortion
… The Democratic Party has rejected the message that drove its politics since President Bill Clinton’s administration — that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare” — and embraced abortion rights with few stipulations. Every leading Democratic presidential candidate has fallen in line. But unlike support for same-sex marriage, which […] Read more »
Deep Political Rifts Often Have Led U.S. To Transformation, Researcher Say
America is once again in a sharply polarized era, which makes Lee Drutman of the nonpartisan group New America optimistic. He notes that such times spurred the Revolutionary War and Civil Rights era. Scott Simon, Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR Read more »
2020 Democratic Candidates Wage Escalating Fight (on the Merits of Fighting)
… At a basic level, this is a debate over word choice. Candidates have been selling themselves as “fighters” for centuries, ostensibly on behalf of the proverbial “you.” It goes back at least to 1828, when Andrew Jackson bludgeoned John Quincy Adams, his erudite opponent, with the slogan “Adams can […] Read more »