Month: November 2024

Partisanship by family income, home ownership, union membership and veteran status (PEW Research Center)

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Economic indicators such as family income, home ownership and union membership are all associated with partisanship. Partisanship by income groups Democrats have a substantial advantage over Republicans among voters in the lowest income tier, and a modest advantage among those at the highest income tier: But Republicans have a modest edge among upper-middle-income voters. Voters in the lower-middle tier …

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Key facts about union members and the 2024 election (Andy Cerda)

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Long seen as a core constituency of the Democratic Party, voters who belong to labor unions are increasingly being courted by both political parties. In this year’s presidential election, the campaigns of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have made high-profile efforts to win the support of union members. And union workers are a crucial voting bloc …

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2024 US Elections Exit Polls Statistics

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NBC News, in conjunction with a consortium of news organizations, conducted exit polling across the country in 10 key states. The polling included speaking with voters at polling places and phone interviews. The exit polls are not results, but instead a look at the thinking and motives of voters across the country. Exit polls help …

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How the Iroquois Confederacy Was Formed (Tony Tekaroniake Evans)

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In the story of the Great Law of Peace, Hiawatha and the Peacemaker convince leaders of the Five Nations to literally bury the hatchet.Centuries before the creation of the United States and its Constitution, democracy had already taken root in North America—among a handful of Indigenous nations. Known as the Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee, this league …

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Democracy Without America? What Trump Means for the Global Democratic Momentum (Larry Diamond)

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Since the beginning of this historic “year of elections” worldwide, it was apparent that none would be more important in shaping global democratic prospects than the presidential contest in the United States. Across a broad span of countries and partisan leanings, people who value freedom, democracy, and the rule of law—including leaders of government, opposition …

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How Americans See Their Country (Chester E. Finn, Jr.)

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A “State of American Citizenship” survey paints a brighter picture than many would expect. This essay presents some of the highlights of a survey produced by the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Good American Citizenship, part of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions. To read the full report, click here; the summary and survey data are here. We are troubled but …

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Why a misogynist won the White House (Jill Abramson)

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The Trump-Vance campaign culminated in a frenzy of abuse against women. In the end, none of it matteredThere was a wide gender gap in this US election, just as there was in 2016 and 2020. Kamala Harris enjoyed a 10-percentage point lead over Donald Trump among women voters, according to the exit polls. For the second …

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The “dark money” linking Donald Trump and the British right (Peter Georghegan)

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Some of the President-elect’s biggest donors have been secretly funding UK thinktanksDonald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath” was hardly politic but it’s a sentiment that chimes …

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Xi Jinping’s Axis of Losers: The Right Way to Thwart the New Autocratic Convergence (Stephen Hadley)

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The United States is contending with the most challenging international environment it has faced since at least the Cold War and perhaps since World War II. One of the most disconcerting features of this environment is the burgeoning cooperation among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. Some policymakers and commentators see in this cooperation the …

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