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Ideology
vision 2020
Sept. 12, 2019
Primary Voters See Biden-Warren Similarities, Ideological Gap With Sanders One reason Warren is emerging as a potential unity candidate is that voters perceive her as less liberal than Sanders.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Disagree About Labels, Not Issues A lot of the supposed “disarray” among Democrats involves abstract ideological questions that won’t really keep them from uniting in 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
democratic debates
July 31, 2019
Will Trump Be Able to Capitalize on the Democratic Debate? There was lots of useful conflict in the Democratic debate in Detroit, helping viewers understand their options. But Trump may have enjoyed it most.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Nov. 21, 2018
2018 Midterms Offered More Proof That Split-Ticket Voting Is a Thing of the Past Despite some much-publicized exceptions, voters in the 2018 midterms tended to go all-in on one party.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 elections
Aug. 16, 2018
No, Democrats Don’t Need a National Platform for the Midterms The most important thing to Democrats this year is that they aren’t the party that’s the party of Donald J. Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
Voters, Not Just Politicians, Are Polarized by Party and Ideology While some observers think of polarization as a Washington phenomenon that doesn’t reflect the citizenry, fresh evidence shows otherwise.
By Ed Kilgore
The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right Ten years later, the case looms large in U.S. political culture. For starters, it launched the careers of Richard Spencer and Stephen Miller.
By Reeves Wiedeman
ACA Repeal Is Forcing Republicans to Choose Between Conservatism and Compassion The GOP realizes it can either throw sick people off their insurance (which is cruel) or retain government mandates (which isn’t conservative).
By Eric Levitz
