President Trump argued this week that the death toll from the coronavirus was actually not so bad. All you had to do was not count states that voted for Democrats. “If you take the blue states out,” he said, “we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the […] Read more »
Why Republicans Still Don’t Care About Climate Change
… The accumulating evidence about climate change’s destructive power represents an irresistible force for action. But it’s colliding with an immovable object: the unbreakable resistance to any response among both Republican voters and elected officials. Polling shows that, overall, a growing share of Americans believe climate change is happening, that […] Read more »
2020 Has Quietly Become Another ‘Year of the Woman’
The entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are up for election every two years. But congressional elections tend to lead the news only every other cycle, when there isn’t a concurrent presidential contest. James Madison may have believed that the “legislative authority necessarily predominates” over the executive, […] Read more »
A majority of Asian Americans surveyed planned to vote for Biden
Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the country, and the group exhibited record levels of turnout in 2018 for midterm elections. Enthusiasm levels are high as we approach the November 2020 Presidential elections as well. Asian Americans constitute a critical mass in several competitive states, including Arizona, […] Read more »
Why the stability of the 2020 race promises more volatility ahead
In a presidency of unprecedented disruption and turmoil, Donald Trump’s support has remained remarkably stable. That stability, paradoxically, points toward years of rising turbulence in American politics and life. … The durability of both support and opposition to Trump shows how the motivation for voters’ choices is shifting from transitory […] Read more »
Asian Americans’ political preferences have flipped from red to blue
Asian American voters leave a Temple City, California, polling place in 2012, in the state’s first legislative district that is majority Asian American. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images John A. Tures, LaGrange College Asian Americans used to be a reliable Republican voting bloc. But long before Kamala Harris, who […] Read more »