For those political aficionados capable of prying themselves away from cable news and the web, two quite interesting but very different books are just out. RIP GOP: How the New America is Dooming the Republicans, by veteran Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, was published last month. Greenberg has been a one-person […] Read more »
History may be kind to Republicans who break with Trump — but it doesn’t get a vote
Some Democrats and Trump-skeptical Republicans are confused about why more Republicans don’t support impeachment. The GOP has survived worse scrapes. And surely the Republicans secretly want to be free of their capricious, unpopular, not-really-that-conservative president now that they have gotten a bunch of judicial appointments out of him. Why not […] Read more »
Democrats far more likely than Republicans to see discrimination against blacks, not whites
Americans are more than twice as likely to say there is at least some discrimination against blacks in the U.S. (77%) as they are to say this about whites (36%). But these opinions differ substantially along partisan lines: Far larger shares of Democrats than Republicans say there is a lot […] Read more »
How much sway do past Democratic nominees have? Unless you’re Barack Obama, not much.
Once they won the Democratic presidential nomination. But do their endorsements matter now? Unless your name is Barack Obama, not really. A national USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll asked likely Democratic voters whom among the party’s past presidential nominees would have the most influence on their vote today. Two-thirds named former president […] Read more »
Will This Time Be Different?
On Thursday, the House of Representatives moved one step closer to impeaching the president of the United States for only the third time in history. The 232-196 vote was to formalize the rules and procedures for the next phase of the impeachment process. All but two Democrats, Minnesota Rep. Collin […] Read more »
What We Learned From The First House Vote On Impeachment
Today’s House vote to formalize the impeachment process, spelling out its rules and procedures, isn’t the impeachment vote. That vote — on whether to make Donald Trump only the third-ever president to be impeached — will likely come later, after the House holds public hearings. But Thursday’s vote still told […] Read more »