Registered voters who stayed home in November likely cost Hillary Clinton the election, according to FiveThirtyEight.com’s analysis of a post-election SurveyMonkey poll. Thirty-five percent of self-identified Democrats and 33% of self-identified Independ...
Republicans made significant gains with middle-class voters in 2016, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of 221 metropolitan areas.
Democratic support declined between the 2008 and 2016 in 196 of these regions.
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According to a FiveThirtyEight.com analysis, state polls in key battlegrounds like Florida, Michigan, and Pennsylvania predicted Hillary Clinton would win by an average of 0.6, 4.0, and 3.7 points, respectively. Instead, Mr. Trump won Florida by 1.19 poi...
Democrats are dishing plenty of blame for their presidential loss, but have not yet given much attention to the fact that they failed to persuade and turn out voters where they needed to win, particularly in Michigan (where Donald Trump won by 10,704 vote...
According to 2016 national exit polls, 42% of voters said international trade “takes away U.S. jobs,” while 39% said international trade “creates U.S. jobs.” Just 11% said it “does not affect jobs.” Hillary Clinton won 59% of voters who thought trade wo...
What lies ahead for Democrats after their party suffered massive losses on the federal, state, and local levels in 2016? After Barack Obama’s 2008 victory, 62% of Americans had a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party and 31% had an unfavorable opinio...
While Republicans captured the White House by taking Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, thereby breaking the Blue Wall, they also romped down-ballot. The GOP kept its U.S. Senate and House majorities and picked up governors’ offices and even more sta...
David Axelrod, former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, recently defended the pace of President-Elect Donald Trump’s transition. He noted the incoming Obama team did not made any major appointments before this point in 2008. The Washington Post to...
