The wine track and the beer track are back. The leading candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential race are assembling coalitions of support through the early primary polling that are reminiscent of the patterns that repeatedly shaped the struggles for the party’s nomination in the last decades of the 20th […] Read more »
What you can — and can’t — expect to learn from the North Carolina special election
On Wednesday morning, one of the major parties is going to be irrationally exuberant and the other will be despondent once the results are in from the special election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. But trying to read the tea leaves is almost always a useless exercise. Historical data […] Read more »
Here’s what happens when political bubbles collide
Are you trapped in an echo chamber? Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com Alexander J. Stewart, University of Houston and Joshua B. Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania Social media has transformed how people talk to each other. But social media platforms are not shaping up to be the utopian spaces for human connection their founders hoped. […] Read more »
Are Democrats really ‘godless’? The numbers say mostly not, but the rap still sticks.
… In May, Vice President Pence told Liberty University graduates to be prepared to be attacked by “Hollywood liberals,” the media and the “secular left” for their Christian faith. “Some of the loudest voices for tolerance today have little tolerance for traditional Christian beliefs,” Pence said. “As you go about […] Read more »
A polarizing GOP vs an identity crisis within the Democratic Party
Stan Greenberg, Jonah Goldberg, Kimberly Atkins, Amy Walter and Peter Baker join the Meet The Press round table to discuss the future of the GOP. Meet The Press, NBC News Read more »
Election maps show ‘middle ground’ communities are disappearing
This week, the Democratic Party in South Dakota announced it was closing its last two offices in the state. The move surprised some analysts and brought criticism from some quarters as an example of Democrats abandoning difficult political terrain. But a look at the numbers over the past 20 years […] Read more »