Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) walked onstage here Friday under a gray sky with occasional specks of snow and launched into a full-on attack against President Trump, labeling him a “pathological liar” in a state that was key to Trump’s victory in 2016. He repeated the epithet Saturday at a union […] Read more »
Black and white defines red and blue
Members of minority groups and whites in the United States often see the world through very different lenses, but politically speaking those differences are magnified by the blue/red divide, according to a new Pew Research survey. And that partisan split may be even more important in Washington. The Pew survey […] Read more »
Why is Elizabeth Warren struggling? Democrats aren’t looking for policy.
… A new Quinnipiac University poll of California Democratic and Democratic leaning independents finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads a potential primary with 26%, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders at 18%, Sen. Kamala Harris at 17% and Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 7% each. … […] Read more »
With Polls and Private Meetings, Republicans Craft Blunt Messaging to Paint Democrats as Extreme
Republican leaders are sharpening and poll-testing lines of attack that portray Democratic policies on health care, the environment and abortion as far outside the norm, in hopes of arming President Trump with hyperbolic sound bites — some of them false — asserting that Democrats would cause long waits for doctors […] Read more »
Is America Hopelessly Polarized, or Just Allergic to Politics?
It seems that the only thing Americans can agree on is that we are living in an era of extreme political polarization. … Worrying about decades of Thanksgiving dinners with relatives who support the other party might sound like clear evidence that America is hopelessly, alarmingly divided. But there’s also […] Read more »
The GOP’s Senate Firewall
A palpable nervousness is taking hold among Republicans as they look ahead to the 2020 elections, and the word “firewall” is coming up frequently in the same sentence as “Senate.” Republicans certainly could still pick up the 18 seats needed for a House majority—it’s not an enormous number—and President Trump […] Read more »