Trump officials tried to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census in a move experts said would benefit Republicans despite initial doubts among some in the administration that it was legal, according to an investigative report released Wednesday by a congressional oversight committee. The report offers a smoking gun […] Read more »
How You Feel About Gender Roles Can Tell Us How You’ll Vote
The phenomenon of the gender gap — the fact that women as a whole are more supportive of the Democratic Party than men are — masks significant divisions in the American electorate. … It almost goes without saying, but men and women who support traditional gender roles for men and […] Read more »
How ‘Stop the Steal’ Captured the American Right
… Trump had jolted American politics, probably irrevocably, by urging his supporters to see themselves as an American people distinct from the American population — a people whose particular loyalties, identities and values designated them as the nation’s true inheritors, regardless of what the ballots might have said. If this […] Read more »
The Supreme Court is Now Operating Outside of American Public Opinion
For more than a decade, decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court were largely in step with American public opinion on major policy issues, even as the Court’s makeup grew more conservative. Abruptly, that is no longer the case. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson has garnered all […] Read more »
Red wave not likely to wash up on WA shores
A red wave that some had forecast for Washington’s midterm elections might turn out looking more like a ripple, according to a new Crosscut/Elway poll. Even as favorability numbers sag for President Joe Biden and Gov. Jay Inslee and residents express a generally sour outlook, the poll showed Washington voters […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Most voters say neither Republican nor Democratic congressional candidates have the right priorities
Neither Republican nor Democratic candidates for Congress are seen by most voters as having the right priorities, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The survey finds voters closely divided in their preference for this year’s midterm elections and on the potential consequences of a Republican victory. … […] Read more »