Four years ago, Donald Trump ran for president as Republican outsider, today polls show the GOP faithful have become the core of Trump’s support. But look closer at the numbers and there are some signs of discontent among in the party rank-and-file as the 2020 election nears. CONT. Dante Chinni, […] Read more »
Can Joe Biden be the future and the past?
Former vice president Joe Biden is off to a good start in his third bid for the White House. His opening weeks have set him apart from his Democratic rivals. For the time being, he is operating on his own timetable, at his own pace and rhythm. So far there […] Read more »
Trump Has Ceded the Middle. Can Democrats Grab It?
It’s hardly novel to see the electorate as split into three groups: one side, the other side, and those in the middle. This presidential election can certainly be seen in this way, though the groups are now a bit asymmetric: The side passionately supporting President Trump is about 35 percent […] Read more »
Deceased G.O.P. Strategist’s Hard Drives Reveal New Details on the Census Citizenship Question
Thomas B. Hofeller achieved near-mythic status in the Republican Party as the Michelangelo of gerrymandering, the architect of partisan political maps that cemented the party’s dominance across the country. But after he died last summer, his estranged daughter discovered hard drives in her father’s home that revealed something else: Mr. […] Read more »
Despite Trump administration denials, new evidence suggests census citizenship question was crafted to benefit white Republicans
Just weeks before the Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, new evidence emerged Thursday suggesting the question was crafted specifically to give an electoral advantage to white Republicans. The evidence was found in the files of […] Read more »
2020 Democrats face 2012 GOP challenges
It’s been a month now since Joe Biden announced he was running for president and the Delaware Democrat has been sitting atop the polls since then. The Biden boomlet has come despite conventional wisdom that said the candidates on left of the Democratic Party held all the energy going into […] Read more »