Opinion · 119th Congress
The electorate’s inflation report card: three factors to watch
In 2024, Democrats won independents by 1 point and Republicans won 220 seats. In 2018, Democrats won independents by 12 and Democrats won 235 seats.
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Opinion · 119th Congress
This election was the wakeup call Republicans needed for 2026
↵↵Based on exit polls as of Wednesday afternoon, here are five factors that were in play that Republicans need to understand going into the 2026 midterms. 1) Independents↵↵Republicans' loss of independents
Opinion · 117th Congress
It was all about the independents, again
Only 1 percent of independent voters rated the economy as “excellent,” while 19 percent called it “good,” 41 percent said “not so good” and another 38 percent said “poor.”
Opinion · 117th Congress
Independents will make or break Biden and the Democrats in November
But in 2020, that margin was reduced to 1. In terms of self-identified ideology, in 2016 the margin of conservatives over liberals was 9 points.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Will Biden’s 2022 midterms be worse than Obama’s in 2010?
Republicans won the female vote by 1 point in 2010 despite Democratic claims that passage of Obamacare would sustain the women’s vote for the Democratic Party, after having won the women’s vote by
Opinion · 117th Congress
Midterm voters have a way of reminding presidents what to focus on
In 2009, with the economy in dire straits, Obama kicked off his presidency with a nod to the No. 1 issue in the 2008 election, the economy, by passing a $792 billion stimulus bill in February 2009
Opinion · 117th Congress
As Biden repeats Obama’s mistakes, get ready for 2010 redux
On what will likely be top issues in the midterm election, they are underwater on every key component of people’s No. 1 issue — the economy.
Opinion · 117th Congress
GOP has to make 2022 about policy, not personality
Gavin Newsom in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans almost 2-to-1, where Donald Trump got trounced in both 2016 and 2020 and where no Republican has been elected statewide since 2006 was a long
Opinion · 117th Congress
Election Day 2022 will be Independents’ Day
In 2020, that margin was reduced to a 1-point advantage. Second, in terms of ideology, self-defined conservatives outnumbered liberals by 9 points in 2016.
Opinion · 117th Congress
As federal pro-voter reform stalls, advocates should prepare for state-level action
Some pin their hopes on the House Democrats’ HR 1, also known as the For the People Act, which aims to establish national voter registration and mail-in voting standards. Others look to the John R.
Opinion · 117th Congress
The baboons are ready to disrupt Congress
He sacrificed the No. 3 House GOP leader to maintain fealty to the No. 1 man in the party who has the power to make or break him.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Is the era of small government over?
[jwp-video n=”1″] In polling conducted during 2007 and 2008, after almost eight years of George W.
Opinion · 117th Congress
After four difficult years, let’s open government up ‘For the People’
John Sarbanes and input from across our caucus, we brought HR 1 to the floor and passed it.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Reconciliation, corrupted by Congress: May it R.I.P.
[jwp-video n=”1″] In 1981, the new Reagan administration and the Republican-controlled Senate spearheaded what would become the avant-garde reconciliation process that would remain for the rest
Opinion · 117th Congress
Freedom: A force to be reckoned with
House Democrats’ HR 1 would demand public financing of political campaigns, costing American taxpayers billions of dollars and forcing the public to donate to candidates they may or may not support
Opinion · 117th Congress
Note to Joe Biden: Unity is more than just words
[jwp-video n=”1″] Base first So far, his support for unity has been more rhetorical than substantive.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Does the GOP have an opening with Black voters?
In the party itself, White women outnumber Black men by 17 to 1.”
Opinion · 117th Congress
2020 was no fluke for congressional Republicans, no matter the Georgia runoff results
[jwp-video n=”1″] In 2016, voters identified as conservatives over liberals by a 9-point margin; but in November, that edge for conservatives jumped to 15 points.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Access to health care is critical, no matter your ZIP code
the State Department to allow foreign physicians trained in the U.S. to work in medically underserved areas or health professional shortage areas within the DRA footprint for three years through a J-1
Opinion · 116th Congress
To win, Trump must focus on the economy in campaign’s remaining days
Trump, on the other hand, lost California but carried the rest of the country by 1 percent and with it the Electoral College. Second, Trump needs late deciders to break his way.