Millennials are unique and hold tremendous power and potential – economically, socially and politically. To better understand how to engage this generation, Democracy Corps conducted two focus groups in Philadelphia on January 19th, one among African American millennial women and one among white millennial men. CONT. Democracy Corps Read more »
Bernie Sanders’s real problem with black and Hispanic voters
… Sanders has managed to attract an overwhelmingly white voter base that, by all measures, appears excited and convinced that Sanders’s prescription of inequality busting, billionaire -humbling policy will fix all that is wrong with America. The thing is, Sanders’s message hasn’t quite caught the same kind of fire with […] Read more »
Bernie Sanders Is Making Surprising Gains With Less Affluent Whites
Bernie Sanders’s coalition once looked very familiar: He had strong support among well-educated and affluent liberal white voters of the sort who backed Barack Obama, Bill Bradley and Jerry Brown. He struggled among less affluent voters. But his coalition has evolved over the last few months. He now fares much […] Read more »
For Trump and His Rivals, The Race to Iowa Is Strictly a Numbers Game
… Over the past two weeks, six polls released nationally, and in Iowa and New Hampshire—the critical first two states—show Trump’s support converging with noticeably little variation at around one-third of the Republican vote. Each of those polls shows Trump leading his rivals. Four polls released Tuesday morning also largely […] Read more »
More Republicans See Gain in Anti-Immigration Stance
Three years ago, high-level Republicans declared that after losing the popular vote in five of the past six elections, the party needed to appeal more to Hispanics to win the presidency. Immigration was a threshold issue. … Today, however, this notion has been turned upside down. … More Republican politicians, […] Read more »
Two Versions of America Emerge in the Presidential Campaign
The cultural and demographic gulf between the Republican and Democratic electoral coalitions can now be measured not just in space, but time. Today, the two parties represent not only different sections of the country, but also, in effect, different editions of the country. Along many key measures, the Republican coalition […] Read more »