There’s really no question Democrats are going to win younger voters in 2020. But what matters for them is the size of their margin of victory. Republicans haven’t carried 18-to-29-year-olds in an election cycle since 1994, when exit polling showed them besting Democrats in this age group, 51 percent to […] Read more »
Unlike Mueller, health care will likely be a top issue in 2020
The biggest 2020 news this week is not the end of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. It’s that President Donald Trump’s administration has asserted for the first time that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down. Health care has consistently been listed by voters as a top […] Read more »
Trump’s Fate Now Even More Squarely in Hands of the Voters
There is still so much we do not know about Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 election. For one thing, none of us — including commentators — have actually seen the report; all we have is a summary from Attorney General William Barr, an appointee of President […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Biden, Sanders top Democratic preference
So many Democrats are running for president the race feels like a March Madness bracket. If it were, the No. 1 seeds would be former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Either would be favored to beat President Donald Trump in the 2020 finals, according to the […] Read more »
Why the Fight About the Electoral College Is About More Than the Electoral College
There’s nothing new about calls to replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote. Until recently, partisans on both sides supported a constitutional amendment to do such a thing. Frustration over a polarized and politicized Supreme Court has been going on forever. Activists on both sides have been pushing […] Read more »
Sorry, President Trump. Here’s why American Jews aren’t abandoning the Democratic Party.
President Trump has recently encouraged Jewish Americans to eschew their long-standing affiliation with the Democratic Party — a movement he and others refer to as “Jexodus.” He tweeted out claims that Jews are now leaving the Democrats over the party’s position on Israel. … Yet as several commentators noted, there […] Read more »