The great Democratic divide elects Trump twice
Finally, 47 percent of Elites had graduated college, while 80 percent of the Working Class had not.
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Finally, 47 percent of Elites had graduated college, while 80 percent of the Working Class had not.
Yet Republicans lost them by 2 points (47-49). This was after winning them in 10 consecutive elections with a Democrat in the White House.Â
Walz won by nearly 6 points, 53-47 percent, in the Democratic wave that swept his party into the majority by gaining 31 seats nationwide.Â
In the years since, Juneteenth grew from a folk jubilee celebrating the de facto end of slavery into a holiday recognized in 47 states and the District of Columbia.
(That’s a total of 47 years.)
Alsbrooks’ support grew to 47 percent when undecided voters said who they were leaning toward, while Trone’s grew to 44 percent.Â
In 2020, conservatives jumped to 47 percent, which helped Trump win the state.
In 2016, 18 percent of the electorate had an unfavorable view of both Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Trump won those voters 47 percent to 30 percent.
In 2022, Republicans lost Independents by two points, 47 percent to 49 percent, the reason the expected red wave didn’t happen, despite a historic party identification advantage of plus-3 percentage points
On the Senate side, lawmakers are working on a 47-day bipartisan stopgap funding measure, with a cloture vote scheduled for Saturday.
Jennifer Dunn by a 52 percent to 47 percent margin. Two years later, Republicans were clobbered in the midterm elections with unpopular President George W. Bush in the White House.
In the Senate Military Construction-VA measure, this year’s split is 63-37 in favor of Democrats with less money to go around for earmarks compared to last year’s Senate version, which had a 53-47 split
Forty-seven senators voted in favor of attaching an environmental permitting bill to the annual defense authorization language, which became law, and 47 voted against it, leaving the permitting legislation
They believe, by a margin of 47 percent to 39 percent, that gas prices are down over $1.50 from their peak.
Su became deputy secretary of Labor in July 2021 after being confirmed on a party-line, 50-47 vote in the Senate. Her work in government began as California labor commissioner in 2011.