Americans’ willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine varies significantly by underlying partisan and ideological positioning. This is not surprising, given a great deal of evidence showing the ways in which partisanship and ideology serve as a lens through which Americans view much of the world around them. But it has […] Read more »
Does Joe Biden Understand the Modern GOP?
The dissonance between the first and second halves of Joe Biden’s landmark speech this week encapsulates a central strategic challenge he’ll face as president. During his victory speech on Monday, following the Electoral College vote, Biden denounced more forcefully than ever before the Republican Party’s legal maneuvers to overturn his […] Read more »
Georgia Senate Runoffs: Breaking Down November, Looking to January
Key Points• In a highly unusual situation, both of Georgia’s Senate seats will be on the ballot next month — one seat was already scheduled to be elected, while the other is a special election.• As January’s result will decide control of the Senate, both sides are invested in Georgia’s […] Read more »
Why The Suburbs Have Shifted Blue
… Suburban and exurban counties turned away from Trump and toward Democrat Joe Biden in states across the country, including in key battleground states like Pennsylvania and Georgia. In part, this may be because the suburbs are simply far more diverse than they used to be. But suburbs have also […] Read more »
Four decades and counting — the GOP’s shift to the right is bigger than the Democrats’ shift left
… Today, conservatives and Republicans like to point to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and the “squad” in the House to argue that Democrats have moved so far to the left that their party can’t compete for voters in the political center. There is, of course, some truth to that, but […] Read more »
The ‘urban myth’ behind the GOP claims of voter fraud
The Supreme Court’s rejection last week of the lawsuit from Texas and 18 other Republican-led states effectively ended the legal efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his election defeat. But the case likely marks the start of a new round of Republican efforts to challenge the […] Read more »