by Richard Long | May 2, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Part of the case that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been making for pressing his campaign through the convention can be found in a poll of young voters released last week by the Harvard Institute of Politics. That poll of over 3,000 respondents reveals two...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
In the 2016 presidential primary, Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders can't afford to take African-American votes for granted. With the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary behind them, both Clinton and Sanders are vying for the...
by Robert Reich | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Not a day passes that I don’t get a call from the media asking me to compare Bernie Sanders’s and Hillary Clinton’s tax plans, or bank plans, or health-care plans. I don’t mind. I’ve been teaching public policy for much of the last thirty-five years. I’m a policy...
by Jim Hightower | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
The problem with applying conventional wisdom to political campaigns is that it can suddenly be upended by an unconventional campaign. National media pundits have been riveted by Donald Trump’s flagrantly narcissistic run for the Republican presidential nomination....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 12, 2016 | Economy, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
At first glance, a poll released this week by USA Today and Rock the Vote, done by Ipsos, seems to confound our narrative that a majority of millennials identify more with progressives than conservatives. In fact, when asked that question point-blank when it comes to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 23, 2015 | Conservatism, Populist Majority
The conclusions of a new extensive survey released today by the Pew Research Center are not surprising to people who have followed our chronicling of the Populist Majority over the past two years: Solid majorities of Americans accept a significant role for government...
