Hillary Clinton has strongly embraced President Obama’s record. Campaigning as the one true defender of the president’s legacy, she mentioned him a whopping 21 times in last week’s Democratic debate, while chastising her opponent, Bernie Sanders, for criticizing the Obama administration. Defending Barack Obama is a smart strategy for winning […] Read more »
Partisanship, racial prejudice, and claims that President Obama was born overseas
… What is it that leads a substantial proportion of Americans to accept a claim with no solid evidence and plenty of available refutation? … In our study, we were interested in two specific factors that might lead people to accept claims that Barack Obama was born overseas: partisanship and […] Read more »
Clinton’s, Sanders’ Images Across Racial and Ethnic Groups
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are actively pursuing the votes of black Democratic caucus and primary voters in Nevada and the key Southern state of South Carolina. … Black voters are crucial for Clinton, given that she has a relative image problem among white Democrats. Sanders has […] Read more »
Hillary Clinton Needs To Win The Voters She Lost In 2008
Just as in 2008, Tuesday’s New Hampshire’s primary created an “a-ha moment,” illuminating the contours of each Democratic candidate’s coalition. It’s becoming increasingly apparent that Hillary Clinton is relying on a coalition that looks almost the opposite of the one she assembled in 2008. Eight years ago, she prevailed among […] Read more »
What the Sanders Coalition Needs to Carry Over Into Other States
… Mr. Sanders’s strength among white working-class voters is important because it gives him a chance to overcome the challenge past progressive candidates faced: Well-educated white liberals, the sort who supported same-sex marriage before it was popular nationally, simply don’t represent a large enough share of the electorate to win […] Read more »
Hillary Clinton just lost New Hampshire. Don’t assume she’ll win the next state, either.
… There is this perception that New Hampshire, which Bernie Sanders won Tuesday, is too white and too close to Sanders’s home state of Vermont for Clinton to win. After New Hampshire, though, the states get significantly more diverse; basically every one of the next couple dozen states to vote […] Read more »