A steady religious realignment has reshaped the white American electorate, turning religious conviction — or its absence — into a clear signal of where voters stand in the culture wars. As mainstream Protestant denominations have declined over the past half century, there has been a hollowing out of the center […] Read more »
Young People of Color Shaped Key Super Tuesday Primaries
The 2020 Democratic presidential primaries have once again shown that young people influence elections. More than half of states have now voted in the 2020 Democratic primaries, and the field has narrowed to two candidates: former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders. Biden holds a substantial delegate lead […] Read more »
How Racist Is Trump’s Republican Party?
Is the modern Republican Party built on race prejudice, otherwise known as racism? Has it become, as Stuart Stevens — a media consultant with an exceptionally high win-loss record who was a lead strategist for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 — puts it, the “white grievance party”? … […] Read more »
All Latinos don’t vote the same way – their place of origin matters
Hispanic voters go to the polls for early voting in 2004. G. De Cardenas/Getty Images Eliza Willis, Grinnell College and Janet A. Seiz, Grinnell College Joe Biden won Florida’s 2020 Democratic primary, capturing a majority of the state’s Latino voters. Polls have been tracking the Latino vote in Democratic presidential […] Read more »
Biden is nipping at Trump’s heels in Florida, where Cubans and Puerto Ricans view the president very differently
Joe Biden has a crushing lead over Bernie Sanders among Florida’s registered voters, within days of the March 17 Democratic primary in the state, according to a new Univision News poll. If he becomes the nominee, the former vice president will be in a tight race with Donald Trump, as […] Read more »
Why Sanders Is Losing With Black Voters
The story about Bernie Sanders is that he can’t win black voters. That first emerged when he lost the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and was reinforced by Joe Biden’s decisive sweep of Southern primaries. This has led to reflexive assumptions about the political sympathies of African-Americans, assumptions that fail […] Read more »