… Republican candidates echoing Trump’s disproven claims of fraud about 2020 have already been nominated, or are seeking nominations, for positions with control over election machinery in all five of the states that flipped from supporting Trump in 2016 to Biden in 2020 — Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. […] Read more »
Trump gubernatorial endorsements show questionable judgment
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed dozens of candidates in 2022 Republican primaries for the House, the Senate and governor. … But there already are more than a few signs that Trump’s endorsements in governors’ races will be less important than in contests for Congress, and Trump losses in gubernatorial […] Read more »
Georgia voters showed us these 3 things about the fall election
In Atlanta’s distant suburbs, voters across the political spectrum report that local life is good in 2022 — but the direction of the country is not. That’s one of three major insights we gained while interviewing voters in a key state. We visited two metro Atlanta counties — one blue […] Read more »
More Americans label Republican Party extreme and Democratic Party as weak
With midterm primaries helping set the direction for the Democratic and Republican parties, most Americans, including many of the parties’ own voters, aren’t terribly happy with the parties or what they’re talking about. Given that Sunday’s CBS News poll finds most aren’t happy with the direction of the country either, […] Read more »
Republicans are gaining with female voters, as gender gap shrinks
The polling ahead of the 2022 midterms has been marked by a shrinking of electoral divisions. Young and older voters are now more likely to agree on their views of President Joe Biden. The Democratic advantage among Black and Hispanic voters, while still clear, is smaller. Perhaps more surprisingly as […] Read more »
How Gen X Became the Trumpiest Generation
… Gen Xers, which can be roughly defined as those born between 1965 and 1980, came of age under President Ronald Reagan amid the end of the Cold War. The popular image of Generation X has never quite fit in within any easy political framing. It’s the generation that produced […] Read more »