A new Marquette Law School Poll of Wisconsin registered voters finds 49% approving of the job President Joe Biden is doing as president, 46% disapproving and 4% saying they don’t know. Forty-six percent approve of how Biden is handling the economy, while 48% disapprove and 6% say they don’t know. […] Read more »
Does Biden Understand Contemporary Politics?
With rare exceptions, Joe Biden throughout his presidency has stressed his determination to cooperate with the GOP whenever possible and has minimized his personal confrontations with Republican leaders on both the national and state levels. That strategy has yielded the tangible benefit of the big bipartisan infrastructure bill now marching […] Read more »
‘Dark Money’ Is Funding The 2020 Election Challenge — And Could Challenge 2024
President Biden was sworn into office more than six months ago, but officials in Maricopa County, Ariz., are still searching for evidence that Biden’s victory in their state was based on massive voter fraud — even after multiple audits found no issues. New Yorker writer Jane Mayer says the Arizona […] Read more »
Democrats can’t count on voters being mad enough about suppression to overcome it
… In a randomized controlled experiment, I looked at how people reacted when they learned about a spate of new state bills aimed at driving down youth turnout. … The results were dismaying. While learning about youth suppression generally did make people angry, it did not make people more likely […] Read more »
Most say federal rules are necessary to ensure equal voting access
Most Americans decry the politicization of election and voting rules in the U.S., but at the same time, they echo the partisan rhetoric around voting access and security. And they differ in how much involvement they think the federal government should have in how states run elections. As some state […] Read more »
Republicans increasingly look to ballot initiatives as way to enact voting measures
Republicans seeking to change state voting laws in the face of opposition from Democratic governors or unwilling legislatures are zeroing in on another path — enacting fresh restrictions via ballot initiatives. In Michigan and Pennsylvania, key battlegrounds that President Joe Biden flipped back blue in 2020, as well as in […] Read more »