Stacey Abrams, the first black woman nominated for governor by a major party, is banking on her ability to mobilize progressive constituencies, convinced she can register and turn out tens of thousands of minority voters on Election Day. … Abrams is an outspoken proponent of the liberal agenda, from LGBT […] Read more »
Trump Voters May Be the Biggest Losers From Trump’s Auto Tariffs
President Trump has complained about seeing too many German cars on Fifth Avenue, and threatened heavy tariffs on the companies that produce them. There is a good chance, though, that those Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs were not only made in the United States, but made by workers who voted for Mr. […] Read more »
Why I’m Cautious About Phil Bredesen’s Prospects in Tennessee
Two early surveys show former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, holding a lead over Republican Rep. Marcia Blackburn in hypothetical ballot tests of this year’s Senate race. Those polls, along with kind words about Bredesen from retiring Tennessee GOP Sen. Bob Corker, have raised the contest’s profile and heightened […] Read more »
NBC News poll: The South, once a conservative bastion, is changing
The South is often viewed as a conservative monolith, but the region’s political views are more nuanced — and moderate — than many might expect, according to new NBC News | SurveyMonkey polls. CONT. Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News Read more »
Beyond Virginia: How America’s Big Counties Are Reshaping Politics
Whether they want it or not, the last year has given Americans a master class in political polarization. But the terminology commonly used to describe the peeling apart of the country’s Republican and Democratic factions — “red states and blue states,” “coastal elitists vs. flyover country” and the like — […] Read more »
A Democratic Senate Majority Hinges on Tennessee
We may have already reached a critical juncture in the 2018 Senate midterm elections, so beware of simplistic interpretations. Too often people look at possible electoral outcomes in a binary way; everything is either a zero or a one. In this case, it’s either Democrats cannot win a majority in […] Read more »