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If You Don’t Use It, You Lose It Part II
In spite of incorrect explanations like those of New York Times political columnist Matt Bai that the election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate resulted from the actions of a...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Use It, You Lose It Part III
As the first article in this series pointed out, the two chief demographic components of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal coalition that enabled the Democratic Party to dominate American national...
View ArticleIndependent Does Not Mean Nonpartisan Or Non-Ideological
Almost from the moment on January 20, 2009 when Barack Obama placed his hand on a Bible and became America's 44th president, a major focus of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom is that independent...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Parties Going in Opposite Directions
The United States is a dynamic country with a constantly changing population, culture, and economy. Throughout the nation's history this dynamism has forced the two political parties to either embrace...
View ArticleKeep On Keepin’ On
Last week President Barack Obama spoke with what Politico reporter, Ben Smith, called "unusual demographic frankness" in saying that the Democratic Party must reconnect with and appeal to "young...
View ArticleWaiting For A Wave That May Never Come
Claiming to be the "first independent analyst to push the argument that Democrats would likely suffer significantly higher midterm losses than average for the party in power," Charlie Cook now...
View ArticleDemocrats, Not Independents or Republicans, Will Decide Who Wins in 2010 and...
Like the constant buzz of the vuvuzelas during the World Cup, leading members of the inside-the-Beltway punditry like Chris Cilliza and Chuck Todd have generated an ever louder chorus of warnings...
View ArticleYou’ve Got to Hit Them Where They Live
Virtually all polling analyses, including this column, that deal with the possible outcome of the 2010 midterm elections, make frequent use of the "generic congressional ballot," a survey question...
View ArticleYou Can’t Ignore The Polls, But It Helps If You Know How To Read Them
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, Obama administration strategist David Axelrod, and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, have all recently advised us to not pay much attention to the...
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They’re Young, They’re Democrats, and They’re Progressives, But Will They...
In 2008, after giving Barack Obama a decisive edge in his hard-fought victory over Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, members of the Millennial Generation, who are now between...
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