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This piece is part of the Prospect’s series on progressives’ strategy over the next 40 years. To read the introduction, click here. Making our democracy vibrant, inclusive, and effective has to be a critical part of the progressive project for the next 40 years. Progressives need to take two leaps of understanding. The first is […]

Two new books examine how we have chosen to remember, and what we have chosen to forget, about the war that consumed the 20th century. 

Senate Races 2014 While the 2014 election is almost 2 years away, one fact stands out right now: There are 20 Democratic Senate seats up for election and only 13 Republican seats. Furthermore, In a way, 2014 will be even tougher for the Democrats that 2012 was, although ultimately they picked up two seats then.Their […]

It’s possible to make higher earners pick up nearly all the tab for deficit reduction.

How Well Did the Pollsters Do? The time to analyze the state pollsters is now. Here’s how we did it. For each pollster that ranat least five state presidential polls released after Oct. 1, each state polled by that pollster was examined separately.For each state-pollster combination, only the last poll was used. That poll was […]

Happy Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Not much news today, but if you are looking for one goodpolitical item to read, try this one from Ronald Brownstein about the coalitions President Obama and Mitt Romney assembled. Obama’s consisted of women, young people, and minorities, what Brownstein calls the “coalition of transformation.” Romney’s “coalition of restoration” […]

Iowa Governor Wants to Kill the Ames Straw Poll Buying votes outright is generally frowned upon in American politics with one exception: theRepublican Party’s Iowa straw poll held in Ames, Iowa every pre-election year. Candidates who want tomake a splash try to get their supporters to the straw poll and give them the money for […]

Conservative Republicans Fight Back For 2 weeks, Republican leaders have been blaming their election defeat on lack of party unity and onMitt Romney’s gaffes. Now conservatives are starting tochafe at these explanations. They say the problem is that Republicans lost in 2008 and 2012 to someone they consider extremely weak because their candidates were not […]