The beginning of the end of Roe v. Wade arrived on election night in November 2010. That night, control of state houses across the country flipped from Democrat to Republican, almost to the number: Democrats had controlled 27 state legislatures going in and ended up with 16; Republicans started with […] Read more »
End of Roe v. Wade may not hurt Republicans in Congress, but it could sting them in the states
The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade in arguably its biggest decision in at least a decade. The practical consequences of eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion are enormous. You might think, therefore, that the political fallout would be too. But a look at the political landscape and […] Read more »
How the GOP is making national policy one state at a time
The political divisions in the United States increasingly aren’t coming from Washington. America has divided starkly into states dominated by Republicans with a shared agenda and states dominated by Democrats with an alternative one. Much of America’s uncivil war, as President Biden has described it, stems from states adopting these […] Read more »
Republicans want to hand-count paper ballots. That’s less accurate.
Supporters of former president Donald Trump’s false claim that he actually won the 2020 election are preparing for the next election by attacking the ballot scanners that tabulate the results, arguing that hand-counting paper ballots is more accurate. … Republicans are arguing that humans are more likely than machines to […] Read more »
Why Texans Can’t Get the Gun Laws They Really Want
There’s a disconnect in Texas between public sentiment toward guns and the state’s increasingly lenient public policy toward gun ownership. As part of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, we’ve been polling Texas voters for more than a decade on this topic, and it turns […] Read more »
California: Most Voters Say ‘We Know Best’
Most California voters express confidence in their collective wisdom when it comes to making public policy at the ballot box. They are also firm in their belief that voters’ past decisions on a range of initiatives have had good outcomes. These May PPIC Survey findings come at a time when […] Read more »