Election Day 2016 will produce a shattering crash larger than anything the pundits anticipate because the revolutionary economic and social changes occurring in the United States have now pushed both the burgeoning new majority and the conservative Republicans’ counterrevolution beyond their tipping points. CONT. Stanley B. Greenberg (Greenberg Quinlan Rosner […] Read more »
How Much Do Black Lives Matter to the Presidential Campaign?
The onslaught of confrontations between blacks and the police, as well as intense coverage on TV and online of college campus protests and of the Black Lives Matter movement, have decisively affected the Democratic Party’s position on a core issue: the use of force to maintain public order. … These […] Read more »
Why Are Asian-Americans Such Loyal Democrats?
In just two decades, Asian-American support for the Democratic presidential candidate more than doubled, from the 31 percent Bill Clinton got in 1992 to the 73 percent cast for President Obama in 2012, according to exit polls. … In some ways, Asian-American voters, combining personal wealth, entrepreneurial success, high incomes, […] Read more »
The Sunny Perspective of an Influential Pollster
Stanley B. Greenberg was the senior pollster for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and President Nelson Mandela. In America Ascendant: A Revolutionary Nation’s Path to Addressing Its Deepest Problems and Leading the 21st Century, he writes that despite Washington gridlock, the diversity […] Read more »
On police conduct, white and black Marylanders have starkly different views
A deep racial divide exists among Marylanders over who is to blame for violent police encounters and whether the state’s criminal justice system treats African Americans and whites equally, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll. CONT. Paul Schwartzman & Scott Clement, Washington Post Read more »
Republican candidates field a resistance movement against change
Look at the slogans Republican presidential candidates are running on: “Make America great again” (Donald Trump); “Believe again” (Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal); “Reigniting the promise of America” (Senator Ted Cruz of Texas); “Restore the American Dream” (former Senator Rick Santorum)’ “Heal. Inspire. Revive” (Ben Carson). Notice a theme here? … […] Read more »