I must do better. But understanding the challenge helps explain how we got to this point. For all the party’s messaging mishaps, there are some facts running counter to the prevailing narrative that Republicans are messaging maestros. First, Democrats have won the popular vote in all but one...
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Reagan said: “Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young,”and warned,“If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”
Larry Hogan, a Republican, is urging voters to elect him to the Senate over Democrat Angela Alsobrooks even as they vote for Kamala Harris for president. Current Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, has a big problem with that. "I do think it's rich that Larry Hogan is asking people...
This structure also blocks any would-be “New Republicans” such as Chris Christie from gaining the kind of power inside the party that a New Democrat like Bill Clinton received in 1992. The only way they’d be able to attract a following inside the Party would be to commit themselves to...
— They’re young. They’re angsty. They disapprove of the president’s job performance. And, for the most part, they’re going to vote for him anyway. Early this morning, Harvard’s biannual youth poll came out. It finds that among registered voters under age 30, Biden ...
One-third (30 out of 93) California democrats accepted oil money this session, including state Sen. Scott Wiener, who was the only Democrat to vote against big oil on climate-related bills 100% of the time. However, it is important to note these are just the bills that made ...
Flash back a couple weeks, and Ken (not his real name) was one of four or five people sitting around my best friend Mark’s dorm room — drinking, listening to music, solving all the problems of the world together like only young people can do. That room and those people would soon ...
Jason was one of the kids who messaged Tristan several years back. “It’s like you’re in a secret society of gay people,” he explains of the underground network of LGBTQ kids at the school. “I’ll come out to somebody, and then they’ll come out to me. They’ll tell me about...
(Republicans controlled thirteen of eighteen congressional districts in Pennsylvania while winning just under half of the popular vote in that state’s 2012 congressional elections.) In North Carolina, when a Democrat in 2016 won the governorship, Republican state legislators responded by eviscerating...