… As noted in the chart below, the Democrat Party’s image among white voters has been in steep decline over the last decade. Accelerating their decline is their standing among the white working class, a group identified in numerous post mortems of the 2018 campaign as a key coalition in […] Read more »
Murray and Middlebury: What Happened, and What Should Be Done?
Dr. Charles Murray, a political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, came to Middlebury last Thursday to discuss his book Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. … But when Murray was introduced, the student crowd erupted in a barrage of chants and sign-waving designed to […] Read more »
Obama pollster Cornell Belcher on the failures that led to President Trump
The Democratic Party is continuing its postmortem after Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat. Many challenges and puzzles will need to be resolved. … Some have suggested that Democrats should abandon “identity politics” and focus exclusively on winning back white working-class voters. While Barack Obama won two terms — and left office […] Read more »
Can Trump win over African Americans? This survey suggests there’s little chance.
… On Election Day, an estimated 8 percent of African Americans voted for Trump. Trump’s dust-up with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon, in the lead-up to the inauguration did nothing to ease the tensions. But with Black History Month upon us and the president perhaps attempting to […] Read more »
Do voter identification laws suppress minority voting? Yes. We did the research.
… Proponents claim that ID laws are necessary to reduce fraud and to restore trust in the democratic system. Critics claim that voter ID laws serve as effective barriers that limit the legitimate participation of racial and ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged groups. … Because these laws are so new, […] Read more »
Government Dissatisfaction Returns as Most Important Problem
Dissatisfaction with the government now clearly leads as the issue Americans see as the most important problem facing the U.S. The 19% mentioning the government is up from 11% last month and is now significantly higher than the percentage mentioning any other issue. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »