President Donald Trump’s drive to rescind the federal efforts to combat global climate change is highlighting another chasm between Republican- and Democratic-leaning states. … In the presidential Electoral College and the Senate, Republicans rely overwhelmingly on the states most tightly bound to the fossil fuel economy — as producers, consumers […] Read more »
New Poll Finds Latino Voters Still Ignored in Lead Up to Election 2018
As Latino voters prepare to head to the polls in less than two months, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund and Latino Decisions released the results of the first wave of a ten-week tracking poll of Latino registered voters. … “This poll confirms what […] Read more »
Primary Election Recap: A Big Upset Here at Home
Honest Graft headquarters is located in the 7th District of Massachusetts, a constituency that rarely commands the attention of the national political world. As denizens of a one-party city located within a seldom-competitive state, Boston voters are unused to producing electoral outcomes of interest to anyone but ourselves (if even […] Read more »
Chuck Todd is right about how the media were sabotaged. But the problem has grown bigger.
First and foremost: Chuck Todd isn’t wrong. The NBC News stalwart’s column in the Atlantic ably assesses the state of American media and, more specifically, the long-term effort by political conservatives to breed distrust in objective journalism. He isn’t wrong that this is not new to President Trump, and he […] Read more »
USC Dornsife launches center to bridge the partisan divide
The political divide — as stark as it’s been in modern memory — ranges from the #resist movement on the left to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain on the right and beyond. The new Center for the Political Future, opening today at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, seeks to bridge […] Read more »
Two forces collide
Nov. 6 will witness the collision of two powerful political forces. Antipathy to President Trump will slam headlong into America’s current political geography. What emerges from that crash will determine not only control of Congress, but also the course of our national politics. CONT. Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill Read more »