As the 2020 campaign cycle begins in earnest, the findings from the most recent Battleground survey reveal an electorate with an ever-deepening sense of frustration toward the status quo in Washington—evident not just in voters’ dissatisfaction with the President(though Trump’s ratings remain spectacularly bad), but also in their persistent exasperation […] Read more »
The Democratic electorate is older, more moderate and less educated than you think
Listening to Joe Biden, you might come away with the sense that he is out of touch with the Democratic Party’s electorate, which many believe is younger, further left and better educated than it used to be. Indeed, the party’s voters may be all of these things. But, as HuffPost’s […] Read more »
A Biden 2020 candidacy would confront Democratic Party with its past
The Democratic Party of 2020 will face a reckoning with the Democratic Party of 50 years ago if former Vice President Joe Biden seeks the presidency, as he’s expected to do. When Biden, who’s now 76, was first elected to the Senate from Delaware in 1972, Democrats relied on an […] Read more »
The Democratic Electorate on Twitter Is Not the Democratic Electorate in Real Life
… Today’s Democratic Party is increasingly perceived as dominated by its “woke” left wing. But the views of Democrats on social media often bear little resemblance to those of the wider Democratic electorate. The outspoken group of Democratic-leaning voters on social media is outnumbered, roughly 2 to 1, by the […] Read more »
Do Democrats Want An Outsider In 2020?
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of a small city in Indiana, has attracted national media attention and is rising in early Democratic Primary polls. Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur with no political experience, already has the 65,000 unique donors required to qualify for the Democratic primary debate stage. The appeal of political […] Read more »
Inside Trump’s all-about-that-base 2020 strategy
President Donald Trump’s path to re-election runs through an alternate voter universe. Rather than build from his base, like a traditional politician, Trump is trying to expand his base and make it a larger share of the overall electorate. The idea is for his campaign, which has begun to ramp […] Read more »