What Michigan’s Lopsided Primary Results May Portend for the General Election

Bernie Sanders had a tough Tuesday night this week with primary losses in several states including Mississippi, Missouri and Idaho. But viewed through the American Communities Project the Vermont senator’s defeat in Michigan looked especially problematic with a key segment of the electorate: blue-collar voters. CONT. Dante Chinni, American Communities […] Read more »

Approval of Congressional Republicans Tops Democrats

More Americans approve of the job congressional Republicans are doing than of congressional Democrats’ performance — 40% vs. 35%. … The latest readings for these measures, from a Feb. 17-28 poll, are Gallup’s first since the Dec. 18 impeachment of Trump in the U.S. House of Representatives and his subsequent […] Read more »

Mitch McConnell’s Senate majority is in danger

Joe Biden’s remarkable change of fortune in the presidential race is coinciding with Senate Democrats’ growing optimism that they can win control of the upper chamber in this year’s elections. Those hopes had dimmed when Bernie Sanders emerged as a leading contender to become the party’s presidential nominee. With the […] Read more »

Suburbanites are voting and that’s good news for Joe Biden

Nearly two years after suburbanites helped drive a Democratic surge, there are clear signs these voters are engaged and primed to vote Democratic again. Turnout in the Democratic presidential primary has been strong across suburban counties, from northern Virginia to Southern California, that fueled the 2018 wave. In several key […] Read more »