In ideology, political strategy, and demeanor, Biden represents the Democratic Party of the past.
Elections
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It’s a Wide Open Race
Anybody purporting to predict the Democratic nominee is blowing smoke.
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Democracy Needs the National Popular Vote
Want to force presidential candidates to build a real, nationwide base of support? Then ditch the Electoral College.
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Voter Turnout Is Surging — And Mitch McConnell Is Terrified
The Senate majority leader recoils at provisions that would facilitate voting—a position that puts him increasingly out of step with voters and with many state-level Republicans.
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Election Reforms Really Mattered in 2018
A new report analyzes the features that define states with high turnout rates.
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Beto and Friends
The blank slate that is Beto O’Rourke looks good to a Wall Street vulture capitalist.Â
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2020 and the Democrats’ Theory of Change
The Democrats can and must think big, but they have to frame their ideas around the realities of a coalition party that includes suburban moderates.
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Beto O’Rourke and the Unity Problem
O’Rourke’s rhetoric of unity seems perfectly sincere, but it can also sound like something Democrats have grown awfully suspicious of.
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Here’s How the Democratic Presidential Nomination Will Go
A much-too-early scenario
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Democrats Can and Should Expand the Map to Georgia and Arizona in 2020
While still putting the Midwest first
