Democratic candidates enjoyed strong support from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voters nationwide on Tuesday, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. LGBT people made up 6 percent of the electorate in the midterms, and 82 percent of them cast their ballot for their district’s Democratic candidate for the House […] Read more »
Suburban Voters Gave Democrats Their House Majority
Democrats retook the House of Representatives on the back of a suburban surge Tuesday, remaking a once rock-ribbed Republican bastion into a Democratic stronghold. … The suburbs aren’t monolithically blue in the same way America’s urban congressional districts are. … And the suburbs aren’t quite as red as rural America, […] Read more »
The 2018 midterm vote: Divisions by race, gender, education
The stark demographic and educational divisions that have come to define American politics were clearly evident in voting preferences in the 2018 congressional elections. There were wide differences in voting preferences between men and women, whites and nonwhites, as well as people with more and less educational attainment. CONT. Alec […] Read more »
Five Takeaways From Democrats’ House Triumph
… With 75 competitive races, it will take more time than usual to take stock of Tuesday’s powerful, if uneven, wave. But here are a few initial impressions in the aftermath of a whirlwind night: 1. This was mostly a suburban revolt. Democrats easily swept out most of the Republicans […] Read more »
The two Americas just lurched further apart
With Tuesday’s House wins, Democrats have established a commanding position in diverse, white-collar, information-age suburban seats around the country. Conversely, after the election, the Republican caucus now tilts even more preponderantly toward districts that are more white, less affluent, and less well-educated than the national average. The result is a […] Read more »
The Polarizer-in-Chief Meets the Midterms
There is no clearer sign of the changing shape of the Democratic coalition than the fact that going into the 2018 midterm elections, six of the 20 richest congressional districts were represented by Republicans but that when the new Congress is sworn in, all 20 will be represented by Democrats. […] Read more »