KCTS 9 and The Elway Poll conducted a 400-person sample poll of registered Washington voters on the subject of race relations. Results show that voters are divided on the current condition (good or bad) of national race relations, while 86% think race relations in their own communities are good. In […] Read more »
Why a key to the 2016 Southern vote lies centuries ago on another continent
… Democratic candidates, who used to campaign aggressively in the heavily Scots-Irish rural communities of Appalachia, have shifted their attention to liberal whites and ethnic minorities, as Barack Obama did in 2008 and 2012. Now, as she builds her 2016 campaign, Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be focusing […] Read more »
Nativism And Economic Anxiety Fuel Trump’s Populist Appeal
Ever since the Tea Party began in 2009, various Republicans have been auditioning to lead this populist revolt. Rand Paul took a chainsaw to the federal budget. Ted Cruz almost shut down the government. Chris Christie and Scott Walker have been bashing Washington elites. But it wasn’t until Donald Trump […] Read more »
What Donald Trump Understands About Republicans
Donald Trump’s success is no surprise. The public and the press have focused on his defiant rejection of mannerly rhetoric, his putting into words of what others think privately. But the more important truth is that a half-century of Republican policies on race and immigration have made the party the […] Read more »
Is There Room For Joe Biden In This Race?
Will Joe run? That’s Vice President Joe Biden, of course, and that’s been the topic in Washington this week as he’s publicly flirted with the idea. If Mr. Biden decides to run, the most difficult task for him may come in cobbling together a coalition capable of challenging Democratic front-runner […] Read more »
Trump Preaching to Shrinking White Electorate Creates Problems for GOP
… The Republican electoral coalition now relies on preponderant majorities from the groups most unsettled by demographic and cultural change: older, noncollege, and rural whites. There are no longer enough of those voters to guarantee Republicans a national majority; that’s why Democrats have won the popular vote in five of […] Read more »