Geography has become a crucial definer of American politics, as vote data suggest we are increasingly a nation of red communities and blue communities. And through that lens, new data from U-Haul offers a glimpse into 2018’s internal population migration and its potential electoral implications. Every year the moving company […] Read more »
Can A ‘Moderate’ Win The 2020 Democratic Primary?
If you follow politics through cable news, or via Twitter, you might get the impression that the Democratic Party is dominated by voters who are almost exclusively coastal, liberal, secular, well-educated and relatively young. And it’s true that some of these groups are becoming more prominent — more Democrats than […] Read more »
Kamala Harris had a very good first month of the 2020 Democratic primary campaign
… A Monmouth University national poll of the 2020 Democratic primary finds Joe Biden leading the field at 29%, Bernie Sanders second at 16% and Kamala Harris in third place at 11%. Most polls since last year have had Biden and Sanders one and two, but few have had Harris […] Read more »
Amy Klobuchar’s best argument for 2020: Electability
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is not currently a favorite to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, but if she does, it will likely be because she can make the case for electability better than probably any other Democrat in the field. Klobuchar, who is set to announce her […] Read more »
Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum and the choices for Democrats in 2020
Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum represent case studies in the new politics of America and give voice to a discussion inside the Democratic Party about how to win the presidency in 2020. The questions are these: What kind of candidate and what kind of campaign would give Democrats the best […] Read more »
Republicans Got Us Into This Mess, and They Have to Get Us Out of It
… The most troubling — and from our point of view the most disappointing — development of the Trump era is not the president’s own election and subsequent behavior; it is the institutional corruption, weakness and self-betrayal of the Republican Party. The party has abandoned its core commitments to constitutional […] Read more »