We face momentous choices in the upcoming 2012 presidential election, with one party seeking radical cuts in government and taxes and the other trying desperately to defend social spending and a positive role for government. Twelve years from now, in...
For the American party system, demography is most definitely destiny. When Barack Obama is almost certainly re-elected this November, Latinos will have played a decisive role in crucial swing states like Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Florida, and even in...
The American electorate has undergone fundamental demographic changes over the past 20 years that will continue for the foreseeable future. These changesin particular, the growth of the millennial generationwill result in a significantly different landscape for the two parties in...
Barack Obama's election was analogous to neither Franklin Roosevelt's nor Lyndon Johnson's. His victory was more like Bill Clinton's: Either reflected a shift of the U.S. public in a progressive or liberal direction. In 1992, Clinton made it over the...