This past weekend, the partial shutdown affecting a quarter of the federal government became the longest on record. … Why is there such difficulty finding a path forward? The roots of the shutdown can be traced to the fraught issue of immigration. A new GW Politics Poll shows just how […] Read more »
Democrats face the age old question in 2020
… Debate about the age of the party’s leadership is likely to grow more heated over the next year, both as that nomination process heats up and as Democrats in Congress intensify their confrontations with Trump. On both fronts the party faces the same paradox: almost all of the Democrats’ […] Read more »
Why Harris And O’Rourke May Have More Upside Than Sanders And Biden
Last week, we introduced a method for evaluating Democratic presidential contenders, which focused on their ability to build a coalition among key constituencies within the party. … In this article, I’ll go through a set of 10 leading contenders and map out their potential winning coalitions; we’ll tackle some of […] Read more »
No longer a dirty word? More Democrats call themselves ‘liberal’
American politics is full of second acts, but the biggest rehabilitation in 2019 may be around the word “liberal.” For years, even Democrats shied away from the moniker. But new data show that L-word has emerged from its exile, and is being embraced again by those who once shunned it. […] Read more »
Americans blame Trump and GOP much more than Democrats for shutdown, Post-ABC poll finds
By a wide margin, more Americans blame President Trump and Republicans in Congress than congressional Democrats for the now record-breaking government shutdown, and most reject the president’s assertion that there is an illegal-immigration crisis on the southern border, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Support for building a wall […] Read more »
Trump, GOP blamed for shutdown; no crisis seen but fewer oppose wall
A majority of Americans hold Donald Trump and congressional Republicans mainly responsible for the partial federal shutdown, now the longest in history, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. Only a quarter back Trump’s claim that there’s a crisis at the southern border and two-thirds oppose him declaring a […] Read more »