Six months into the Biden administration, Senate Democrats are expressing a cautious optimism that the party can keep control of the chamber in the 2022 midterm elections, enjoying large fund-raising hauls in marquee races as they plot to exploit Republican retirements in key battlegrounds and a divisive series of unsettled […] Read more »
Democrats are making headlines on voting rights, but little more to counter restrictive efforts by Republicans
Democrats have produced the biggest headlines recently on the charged issue of voting rights. What they’ve yet to produce is an effective strategy to counteract the work Republican state legislators are doing to limit access and inject partisanship into the election process. More and more for Democrats, it looks like […] Read more »
Half the country believes a deadly conspiracy theory
The two most monumental events of the last year in the US were the election of Joe Biden to the presidency and the introduction of Covid-19 vaccines. Yet there are those who falsely believe Biden won only because of fraud or that they shouldn’t get a vaccine. Having either belief […] Read more »
Democrats Find Themselves Navigating the Politics of Fear
… Just as rivers have changed direction, last fall we saw an election change direction in the last month. Talk of a Democratic wave seemed to trigger a counter-movement, attributed by some to the Left’s calls to defund the police, abolish ICE, decriminalize immigration, enact Medicare-for-all, and pack the Supreme […] Read more »
Why Married Men Might Be an Overlooked but Crucial Voting Bloc
… If both men and married people lean to the right, one would expect married men to be an extremely reliable Republican constituency. That is why it has been so surprising that recent analyses of the 2020 election show that in the past five years, married men, though still more […] Read more »
President Biden’s approval remains steady with a little over half of Americans approving of his job in office
Overall, 53% of Americans approve of President Biden’s performance in office, and he gets the biggest approval on his handling of COVID-19, the environment, and racial inequality. Americans are most concerned about the economy (18%), the health care system (11%), crime or corruption (10%) and public health (9%). CONTINUED Chris […] Read more »