Race remains an impenetrable dividing line in attitudes about the Affordable Care Act five years after President Obama signed it into law. With Obama celebrating the law’s fifth anniversary last week—and House and Senate Republicans marking the occasion by voting again to repeal it—polls show that whites remain much more […] Read more »
Rubio Pollster: GOP Must Top 40% with Latinos to Win White House in 2016
So much for baby steps. Republicans widely acknowledge that in order to take back the White House in 2016, they must make steady gains in winning back Latino voters, only 27 percent of whom supported Mitt Romney in 2012. But Whit Ayres, a prominent Republican pollster who will work for […] Read more »
The Democrats’ Problem with White Men
… By and large, the GOP is made up of the white, married middle class. The Democrats, on the other hand, are a demographic hodge-podge. And one group that is less and less important to the Democrats is white men. … It is now regularly averred that the “browning” of […] Read more »
Fallout From the GOP’s Lack of Diversity
Ninety-five percent of self-identified Republican primary voters are white. … Nominating a candidate for president from an electorate that is less diverse than America was a century ago, when voting rights were limited to men ages 21 and over, is not good for the Republican Party or its eventual nominee. […] Read more »
America’s Still-Healing Racial Wounds
Fifty years ago, on March 15, 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson gave one of the most memorable speeches by a U.S. president, calling on Congress to enact a voting rights bill by borrowing the cry of the civil rights movement: “We shall overcome.” The Voting Rights Act passed a little more […] Read more »
Hate Takes the Bus
… A 2010 Pew report found that “almost all millennials accept interracial dating and marriage.” An MTV poll of millennials found that “84 percent say their family taught them that everyone should be treated the same, no matter what their race,” and that 89 percent “do believe that everyone should […] Read more »