One theme of the 2018 election was that Democratic senators from rural, red states became an endangered breed. Three Democratic senators on deep-red turf — Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota — lost their seats. Two others managed to squeak out wins […] Read more »
All Is Not Lost for Republicans in the Suburbs
Will Ferrell once joked about his all-too-normal, stress-free upbringing: “Maybe that’s where comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.” Safe? Boring? Not any more, especially not for Republicans this year. It was suburban voters — women and men — who voted Republican in 2010, […] Read more »
America’s Electoral Map Is Changing
Today’s political landscape is often dismissed as a partisan deadlock in which the vast majority of voters have already made up their minds and will only dig their feet in further with each passing news cycle. And the data speaks for itself: People seemed to choose party over candidate in […] Read more »
The comically large 2020 Democratic field, explained
Vox’s internal tracking document of who is “considering” running for president currently includes 34 names on the Democratic side. … So why, then, do so many Democrats think it’s worth trying? Because President Donald Trump is unpopular, and because there’s no clear Democratic figure in line for the nomination. These […] Read more »
Iowa Poll: Republicans back the President, but welcome challengers
Two-thirds of Iowa’s Republican voters say they would definitely vote to re-elect Trump if the general election were held today, but nearly as many say the state’s party ought to welcome challengers to the President to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, according to a new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, […] Read more »
It’s the populism, stupid.
Young or old? Female or male? White, black or Latino? The first stage of the 2020 presidential campaign — the jockeying stage — is underway, and Democrats are trying to figure out who the ideal candidate is. They’re asking the wrong questions, though. Demographic identity matters much less than people […] Read more »