Stan Greenberg, Jonah Goldberg, Kimberly Atkins, Amy Walter and Peter Baker join the Meet The Press round table to discuss the future of the GOP. Meet The Press, NBC News Read more »
Election maps show ‘middle ground’ communities are disappearing
This week, the Democratic Party in South Dakota announced it was closing its last two offices in the state. The move surprised some analysts and brought criticism from some quarters as an example of Democrats abandoning difficult political terrain. But a look at the numbers over the past 20 years […] Read more »
SC, Kansas GOP scrap 2020 presidential preference votes
Republican leaders in South Carolina and Kansas have voted to scrap their presidential nominating contests in 2020, while party officials Nevada were deciding whether to follow suit as the GOP erects more hurdles for the long shots challenging President Donald Trump. CONT. Meg Kinnard, Associated Press Read more »
The power of Texas in presidential politics
Latinos attract less attention than they otherwise merit in American politics because almost half of Latinos live in the two biggest states, neither of which is a presidential swing state: comfortably blue California and reliably red Texas. In the first half of this third, two-part post in my series about […] Read more »
The Secret Files of the Master of Modern Republican Gerrymandering
Thomas Hofeller preached secrecy as he remapped American politics from the shadows. The Republican Party operative, known as the master of the modern gerrymander, trained other G.O.P. operatives and legislators nationwide to secure their computer networks, guard access to their maps, and never send e-mails that they didn’t want to […] Read more »
Dare We Dream of the End of the G.O.P.?
Toward the end of his new book, “R.I.P. G.O.P.,” the renowned Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg makes a thrilling prediction, delivered with the certainty of prophecy. “The year 2020 will produce a second blue wave on at least the scale of the first in 2018 and finally will crash and shatter […] Read more »