Category: Election 2020
Ohio Voters Gave Trump an Eight-Point Margin in the Last Election. What Will They Do in 2020?
by Dudley Althaus | Nov 2, 2019 | Election 2020The scarcely 22,000 voters of Ohio’s Ottawa County, nestled on the south shore of Lake Erie, have picked the winning presidential candidate for more than half a century, rarely straying more than a few points off dead center. The county’s largely working-class voters twice favored George W. Bush by between two and four points and […]
Montana Voters Offer Useful Intelligence
by Richard Brodsky | Sep 30, 2019 | Election 2020For New Yorkers, summer travel to Montana has intrinsic worth: scenery, family, climate, and a break from the routine we create for ourselves. It is also an opportunity to see the world through a different set of eyes. Those eyes in Montana are cast firmly on the 2020 presidential election to precisely the same extent […]
Yes, Increase Taxes on the Ultrarich, but What’s the Best Way to Do It?
by Steven Pressman | Sep 29, 2019 | Economy, Election 2020During the most recent Democratic presidential debate, Elizabeth Warren vigorously defended her proposal for a new type of tax in the United States—an annual tax on wealth. “It’s time to tax the top one-tenth of 1 percent fortunes in this country,” she said. Indeed, the very rich do need to pay higher taxes. Their tax […]
The Heart and Mind of a Democrat
by Hamilton Fish | Feb 4, 2019 | Election 2020, PoliticsOn the last day of 2018, Elizabeth Warren became the first woman and the first of the presumed Democratic front-runners to signal her intent to run for president. “The anti-Warren narrative was written before the Massachusetts senator even announced,” observed Natasha Korecki in Politico. Anyone trafficking in analysis lite on the 2020 race—which at this […]