What does it look like when a country’s identity falls apart? Interior Design/shutterstock.com Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University What happens to a country when its core national identity – its preferred image of itself in terms of race or religion – doesn’t match its demographic reality? Say a Sunni-dominated Arab […] Read more »
Democrats Consider: Is A White, Straight Man The Safe Bet Against Trump?
… Democrats have 19 candidates and counting to pick from ahead of 2020, the most diverse field in American history in terms of gender, race and sexuality. And while they try to pick whom they personally like, they are also doing some serious mental gymnastics around the question of electability […] Read more »
New research shows just how badly a citizenship question would hurt the 2020 Census
The Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census reaches the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Thus far, three federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration, most recently in Maryland. The Supreme Court will consider not only whether the administration violated administrative law, but also whether […] Read more »
GOP Solidifying Support Among a Shrinking Base
Non-college-educated whites’ affinity for the Republican Party was growing even before the rise of Donald Trump’s political career — and it has grown stronger since, according to Gallup Poll Senior Editor Jeff Jones’ latest analysis. Jones joins the podcast to discuss what this means, and later, The Washington Post’s national […] Read more »
If Trump Country Soars, Will the President Glide to a Second Term?
In small but politically significant ways, the economy under President Trump has favored regions and constituencies that supported him in 2016. These are the men and women whom Trump called forgotten Americans. The emerging pattern of economic growth reverses a trend that held from the 2008 recession to 2016, in […] Read more »
National Poll Shows Biden, Sanders, O’Rourke, and Castro Ahead With Latino Voters in Lead Up to 2020
Less than 10 months before the 2020 primaries and caucuses begin, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund and Latino Decisions today released the results of a new national poll of Latino registered voters. Results from the NALEO Educational Fund/Latino Decisions Spring 2019 National Poll […] Read more »