This week’s COVID-19 numbers: as of Friday morning, there were 244,228 confirmed cases of the virus in the United States; 6,200 fatalities; and more than 10 million unemployment claims filed last month. This is our backdrop; this is our context. It is grim. Below I detail the most relevant polling […] Read more »
Surprisingly few voters think Trump cares about ‘people like me’
As both a presidential candidate and president, Donald Trump has been said to have a special connection to “ordinary Americans” or “average Americans” while his “elitist” opponents are said to look down on them. … But three years into his presidency, most Americans do not perceive Trump as particularly concerned […] Read more »
Bernie: The Left is Still Waiting for the Proletariat Vote
Bernie Sanders often declared that his is “a campaign of the working class, by the working class, and for the working class,” calling for that class to rise up, vote for him, and make the democratic socialist revolution. He was sorely disappointed. At this writing, soon after the second “Super […] Read more »
The Sanders Coalition Is Not Quite What We Thought It Was
… A crucial bloc of Sanders’s 2016 voters is no longer a part of the Democratic primary electorate. The remnant of the conservative wing of the Democratic Party that in 2016 voiced its hostility to Clinton by voting for Sanders has now turned to President Trump. Many of these former […] Read more »
Why Bernie Sanders Isn’t Winning Over Black Voters
… Democrats who wish to beat Trump but prefer Sanders to former Vice President Joe Biden, must ask themselves the following question: Can a campaign that rests primarily on class warfare and economic justice, one that largely relegates race to a concern simply encompassed by economic reform, attract enough black […] Read more »
Bernie Sanders Might Have a Michigan Problem
It seems clear that Bernie Sanders needs to change the fundamental trajectory of the Democratic primary over the coming 12 days. And at first glance, the next contests — the states voting Tuesday — would seem to offer a promising set of opportunities. Among them is Michigan, where he posted […] Read more »