Earlier this week the Democratic SuperPAC Priorities USA released a memo that publicly acknowledged concerns that Democrats had been privately expressing for a couple weeks that Democrats lack a compelling economic narrative for 2018. … The Priorities memo, as well as other non-partisan polling, finds that the majority of Americans […] Read more »
The Congressional Stalemate Over Guns and Immigration Isn’t Going Away
The dim odds that Congress will respond to the Parkland school massacre with meaningful gun control and the flickering prospects it will pass immigration reform both reflect the same obstacle: the widening trench between the forces of transformation and restoration in American politics. The convergence of the two policy debates […] Read more »
What’s Behind Trump’s Rising Popularity?
It would be easy to read the headlines this week and conclude that the Trump administration is in even more trouble than normal. The White House still can’t get its story straight on Staff Secretary Rob Porter’s departure amid domestic-violence accusations. Chief of Staff John Kelly seems to be losing […] Read more »
Donald Trump’s culture war is running into the gender gap
With his sharp words in recent days defending men accused of sexual harassment and spousal abuse, President Donald Trump launched another firebomb into the cultural chasm running through his presidency. This new debate could expose Republicans in 2018 to a more widespread backlash among women — and a more pointed […] Read more »
Priorities USA: Democrats Must Keep Focus on Economy and Health Care
Democrats continue to hold an advantage over Republicans heading into the midterms but must reassert control over the economic narrative if they are going to maximize electoral success in House, Senate and governors’ races this fall. For much of the past year Democrats have debated Republicans on tax reform and […] Read more »
FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast: What’s So Wrong With Nancy Pelosi?
Nancy Pelosi has been a key figure in Republican attack ads for years, and this year is no different. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team debates why she is the focus of so much negative attention from the right (and often the left, too). The crew also breaks down the findings […] Read more »