…broader base to build a winning coalition on.” Clinton cited an article that, in her words, showed “how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again,…
…services for veterans. Simple answer Congressman Miller, this veteran believes you should sponsor an increase in taxes on the upper income bracket you and the Republicans have favored over veterans….
…coalitions, hostility to taxes and the welfare state, willing submission to the power of free markets and free movement of (untaxed) capital. And so some in the #NeverTrump camp are…
…part of Trump’s Ryan-budget/tax-plan-on-steroids and court and agency appointees does she think moderate suburbanites support? The part that ends the estate tax that currently applies only to multimillionaires? The Supreme…
…prediction, but certainly consistent with the plodding economic expansion. The Electoral College system favors candidates with broad, decent appeal over candidates with narrower overwhelming appeal. The current democratic coalition is…
…victory twice, expecting, mistakenly, that this coalition would support her in nearly the same numbers. They did not. — Hillary Clinton’s Expectations, and Her Ultimate Campaign Missteps, Amy Chozick, New…
…and thought that blue collar whites weren’t key parts of the Obama coalition in the Rust Belt and elsewhere in the Midwest? Here’s a new one to me, and it…
…civil rights message to a joint session of Congress, calling for abolition of poll taxes, enactment of a federal anti-lynching law, creation of a permanent federal employment commission, and new…
…“NPR is taxpayer-funded (boy, this sounds familiar), and has an entire section of its programming and a regular feature called “Code Switch,” which from my perspective is a racist program…
…water. A coalition promotes laws ensuring government-subsidized free water for poor families; a Fox News investigative report shows that some people receiving water on the government dime are taking long…