… With opinion divided over President Obama’s impact on both the nation’s economy and its security, the Democrats’ most potent weapon in the 2016 election remains the sense that they are more connected than the GOP to the nation’s evolving cultural and demographic dynamics. As last week’s GOP first- and […] Read more »
Obama Gets Low Marks for His Handling of Iran
Only one in three Americans approve of President Barack Obama’s handling of the situation in Iran — his lowest rating of eight issues measured in a new Gallup survey. The president’s policy toward Iran has been a major focus as he tries to drum up support for the multi-national agreement […] Read more »
46 States Saw Young White Population Decline
Our labor market is growing increasingly dependent on workers of color who now face persistent gaps in educational attainment and economic opportunity. That’s evident in the demographic trends among the young people of today who will comprise the workforce of tomorrow. CONT. Ronald Brownstein, National Journal Read more »
Nine Years Ago, Republicans Favored Voting Rights. What Happened?
On July 20, 2006, the United States Senate voted to renew the Voting Rights Act for 25 more years. The vote was unanimous, 98 to 0. That followed an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives, which passed it by a vote of 390 to 33. President George Bush […] Read more »
Americans Less Positive About Black Civil Rights Progress
Americans still widely believe that civil rights for blacks have improved during their lifetime, but the 76% who say this is down from 87% in 2013. Meanwhile, the percentage of Americans who say the situation stayed the same or has worsened (23%) is the highest Gallup has ever found. CONT. […] Read more »
Do the Democrats Understand America’s New Racial Politics?
… For two generations, it has been an assumption in both parties that the black vote is among the least fungible variables in American politics. The best any Republican presidential candidate since 1980 has done with black voters is a paltry 12 percent (Bob Dole in 1996); only 6 percent […] Read more »