If Hillary Clinton’s book, What Happened, has taught us anything, it’s that the internet is not done relitigating the 2016 Democratic primary or the general election. Underpinning it all is a sense that the outcome — President Donald Trump — is profoundly strange. … But the interpretive debate often becomes […] Read more »
New Research Exposes Why Competition in U.S. Politics Industry is Failing America
At a time of high dissatisfaction and distrust with the U.S. political system, Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter today released new research that illuminates the root causes of why competition in politics is failing to serve the public interest. It is delivering gridlock and partisan divisions, not solutions […] Read more »
How Much Can the Youth Vote Actually Help Democrats?
Young Americans have been moving left and leaving the G.O.P. in recent years, but a successful Democratic coalition built on the backs of liberal youth is far from a sure thing, especially in the short term. The party’s problem is straightforward: getting them to actually go to the polls. Politicians […] Read more »
Thoughts on voter confidence and election reform
The New Hampshire meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PACEI) focused on four substantive topics — turnout, voter confidence, fraud, and voting machine security. Here are my thoughts on the voter confidence topic. I start with voter confidence because this is how the entire work of the […] Read more »
Report on ‘Voter Fraud’ Rife With Inaccuracies
I look forward to a more detailed analysis by voter registration and database match experts of the GAI report that will be presented to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, but even a cursory reading reveals a number of serious misunderstandings and confusions that call into question that authors’ […] Read more »
2018 Could Be The Year Of The Angry White College Graduate
Even with the political winds at their back, Democrats enter the 2018 congressional midterms at a historic geographic disadvantage. They also face demographic hurdles: Midterm electorates tend to be older and whiter than those that show up in presidential years. That’s part of the reason Republicans picked up so many […] Read more »