The Calm Before the Storm? America Pauses, While Social Distancing Continues

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 »

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 »