More than half of Americans expect the Biden administration will be able to accomplish 10 of 15 specific national and foreign policy goals commonly sought by U.S. presidents. The public is most likely to predict the next administration will make improvements to the environment (64%), education (63%) and conditions for […] Read more »
Democrats Hope Georgia Will Become The Next Virginia, But It Could End Up Being The Next North Carolina
When Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia flipped to the Democratic side in the 2008 presidential election, it seemed like the start of a long-lasting shift. A Democratic Party increasingly synonymous with people of color, college graduates and urbanites appeared destined to win in states with growing, well-educated, racially diverse metropolises […] Read more »
100% Hart: A Summary of 2020 Polling
100% of family caregivers for an aging or disabled family member are worried about their family’s health due to COVID-19. 99% of voters said they’d seen, heard, or read about the spread of the coronavirus in March, when there were more than 3,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States. […] Read more »
The Southern state where Black voters are gaining in numbers, but not power
… If Georgia is the epitome of the “New South,” Mississippi remains very much still the old South: a conservative stronghold where the GOP is composed almost exclusively of white voters, and the Democratic Party of Black voters. At first blush, Mississippi would seem to be fertile terrain for Democrats. […] Read more »
Trump’s Fraud Claims Died in Court, But the Myth of Stolen Elections Lives On
President Trump’s baseless and desperate claims of a stolen election over the last seven weeks — the most aggressive promotion of “voter fraud” in American history — failed to get any traction in courts across seven states, or come anywhere close to reversing the loss he suffered to Joseph R. […] Read more »
Lessons from 2020 (that I can’t yet prove)
The year 2020 threw a lot at us. While (hopefully) the year will remain a fairly unique one in our history, surely there are some useful political lessons we can draw from it. So what follows is an incomplete list of lessons we’ve learned that I’m pretty sure are true […] Read more »