Gov. Ralph Northam’s approval rating has inched up and disapproval has eased sharply since February, when fellow Democrats in Virginia and across the country demanded his ouster over a blackface scandal, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll. … Just under half of Virginians like the job Northam is […] Read more »
Why Black Voters Prefer Establishment Candidates Over Liberal Alternatives
Black voters effectively delivered Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. She and Sen. Bernie Sanders ran about evenly among white voters, but black voters overwhelmingly backed Clinton. So did the Democratic establishment. That team-up — black voters and the more establishment candidate — is not unusual. We don’t […] Read more »
Will Trump Ever Leave the White House?
… On March 12, 2019, a month before publication of the Mueller Report, Trump told Breitbart, the hard right populist news site: You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher. […] Read more »
How the Average Joe (and Jane) Could Wind Up Stopping Warren
Elizabeth Warren is gaining. She has breached 20 percent of the vote in recent national surveys and might hold a narrow lead in Iowa and New Hampshire. The prediction markets now consider her a clear favorite to win the nomination. It can be hard to see how her Democratic rivals […] Read more »
AP-NORC poll: Most disapprove of Trump on race relations
Large majorities of black and Latino Americans think Donald Trump’s actions as president have made things worse for people like them, and about two-thirds of Americans overall disapprove of how he’s handling race relations, according to a new poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. CONT. […] Read more »
The Front-Runner?
Biden has largely led in the polls since entering the Democratic primary. Yet his front-runner status is complex: a cornerstone of his primary support is the black community — a recent poll from YouGov and The Economist showed Biden with as much as 65 percent of black support — even […] Read more »