Democrats seized control of the House after the 2018 elections for a fairly straightforward reason: They picked off a number of mostly suburban seats that had been held by Republicans. … Poll: Suburban women are coming back into the Republican Party in droves “because of the Wall and Border Security. […] Read more »
Rust Belt, Sun Belt or Both? Democrats Seek the Best Route to the White House
At the very first event of her first full day in Iowa as a presidential candidate, Senator Kamala Harris was greeted by a Democratic voter who delivered a pointed recommendation about the best path to the White House. The voter, Rahul Parsa, who teaches at Iowa State University’s business school, […] Read more »
The Rules Do Not Apply to Trump Because the Rules Never Existed
A lot of the political analysis of the Trump presidency has been about whether or not the “rules” of politics apply to him. It’s also possible, however, that Donald Trump is just revealing that the rules were never that iron-clad in the first place. CONT. Seth Masket, Pacific Standard Read more »
Trump’s Secret to Victory in 2020: Hispanic Voters
… It’s easy to assume that all Hispanic-Americans must detest and disapprove of the president who derides and vilifies immigrants coming across the southern border. But that hasn’t been the reality. Hispanics make up a large, diverse population that does not act as a monolith. As a whole, Hispanic-Americans are […] Read more »
In Conservative Districts, Democrats Have to Answer for Party’s Left Wing
… Last week, home for the first district workweek of their term, moderate Democrats got to see firsthand how the raised voices of a small but vocal number of lawmakers such as Representatives Tlaib, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York are reverberating in far more marginal […] Read more »
Florida’s ex-felon voting rules slow to impact registration
This past fall, citizens in Florida voted to give most former felons the right to vote and in doing so they may have fundamentally altered the electoral math in the nation’s swingiest perpetual swing state — or … maybe not. CONT. Dante Chinni & Sally Bronston, NBC News Read more »