With the Electoral College poised to elect Joe Biden on Monday, a sizable 62% majority of the nation’s voters feel the election is “over and settled” and it’s “time to move on.” Large majorities feel their own votes were counted correctly, and a majority acknowledge Mr. Biden as the “legitimate […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Most Republicans say President Trump was robbed
Sixty-eight percent of Republicans believe the election was stolen from President Trump. Among Trump voters, 77 percent think he actually won. And, so do 26 percent of independents and even 10 percent of Democrats. That’s according to the latest Fox News national survey of registered voters. … And, by a […] Read more »
Republicans Are Going Down a Dangerous Road
Republicans’ tolerance, if not active support, for President Donald Trump’s ongoing bid to overturn the 2020 election has crystallized a stark question: Does the GOP still qualify as a small-d democratic party—or is it morphing into something very different? Even with the Supreme Court still deciding whether to consider a […] Read more »
How Republicans live in a bubble, too
Following Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 election, there was a lot of talk how the Democrats lived in a bubble. They failed to see President Donald Trump’s win coming and nominated someone who lost to the least-liked candidate of all time. Well, now it is clear that the shoe […] Read more »
Republicans Pushed to Restrict Voting. Millions of Americans Pushed Back.
Nearly 160 million Americans voted in the 2020 elections, by far the most in history and a level of turnout not seen in over a century, representing an extraordinary milestone of civic engagement in a year marked by a devastating pandemic, record unemployment and political unrest. … The shifts that […] Read more »
What four California ballot initiatives reveal about race relations in the U.S.
In 2020, America’s three biggest problems — according to Americans — were the coronavirus pandemic, poor political leadership and race relations. Voters expressed their preferences on the first two by throwing President Trump out of the White House. The election provided little insight on racial issues, however: There is no […] Read more »