In 2020, will white evangelical Christians stick with the Republican Party, where they’ve long been a reliable voting bloc? Evangelicals made up just over one-third of President Trump’s 2016 coalition, and have been among his most loyal supporters. At the same time, researchers and observers have been debating whether the […] Read more »
Can We Guarantee That Colleges Are Intellectually Diverse?
According to some critics of higher education, as college students around the country head back to class, they will search in vain for classroom debate where all opinions are welcome. Conservative watchdog groups paint a dark, repressive picture. “The Evil Empire on Campus,” an online resource published by the organization […] Read more »
Could Trump Drive Young White Evangelicals Away From The GOP?
A central message of President Trump’s insurgent candidacy in 2016 boiled down to this: Millions of Americans are losers — economically, culturally and even demographically. Perhaps no group needed less convincing of this proposition than white evangelical Christians, who have long felt embattled. “Make America Great Again” was the perfect […] Read more »
Black Democrats are split along generational lines
A new national Fox News poll finds that among black Democratic primary voters, former Vice President Joe Biden is their first choice for the party’s presidential nomination at 37%. He is followed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at 18%, California Sen. Kamala Harris at 10% and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren […] Read more »
Chegg/College Pulse presidential preference poll
Bernie Sanders continues to lead nationally among Democratic college students (29 percent), with Elizabeth Warren in second place (22 percent), followed by Vice President Joe Biden (10 percent) and Pete Buttigieg (9 percent) fighting for third place. CONT. Chegg Read more »
Democrats need young voters to win in 2020. But many are skeptical of the party.
Dana Fattouh, 18, likes almost everything about the Democratic Party. … But Fattouh refuses to call herself a Democrat. And though most of her policy preferences align with the party’s liberal wing, she won’t commit to vote blue in 2020. Rather, she says she’ll research her options and decide who […] Read more »