When Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia flipped to the Democratic side in the 2008 presidential election, it seemed like the start of a long-lasting shift. A Democratic Party increasingly synonymous with people of color, college graduates and urbanites appeared destined to win in states with growing, well-educated, racially diverse metropolises […] Read more »
100% Hart: A Summary of 2020 Polling
100% of family caregivers for an aging or disabled family member are worried about their family’s health due to COVID-19. 99% of voters said they’d seen, heard, or read about the spread of the coronavirus in March, when there were more than 3,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States. […] Read more »
The Southern state where Black voters are gaining in numbers, but not power
… If Georgia is the epitome of the “New South,” Mississippi remains very much still the old South: a conservative stronghold where the GOP is composed almost exclusively of white voters, and the Democratic Party of Black voters. At first blush, Mississippi would seem to be fertile terrain for Democrats. […] Read more »
The ‘urban myth’ behind the GOP claims of voter fraud
The Supreme Court’s rejection last week of the lawsuit from Texas and 18 other Republican-led states effectively ended the legal efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his election defeat. But the case likely marks the start of a new round of Republican efforts to challenge the […] Read more »
Race War
The presidential campaign of 2020 ended in a race war between the Democratic and Republican Parties, focused on America’s history of white supremacy, the demand for racial justice, and fear of who will now lead the country at such a moment. This was a war of choice for Donald Trump […] Read more »
The Supreme Court Is Colliding With a Less-Religious America
The Supreme Court’s decision last week overturning New York State’s limits on religious gatherings during the COVID-19 outbreak previewed what will likely become one of the coming decade’s defining collisions between law and demography. The ruling continued the conservative majority’s sustained drive to provide religious organizations more leeway to claim […] Read more »