What Will Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Mean For Democrats — And The Midterms?
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): President Biden has...
Senate Democrats
Why Manchin And Sinema Will Probably Vote For Biden’s Supreme Court Pick
With Wednesday’s news that Justice Stephen Breyer will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of its current term,...
Why A Failed Voting Rights Push Is A Setback For Democracy — And Democrats
The carefully calibrated unity formed among the Democratic Party and its base on voting rights was short-lived. After the White...
Why Democrats Keep Bringing Up Voting Rights
In 2021, Democrats tried a number of times to pass federal voting rights legislation, and each time, it went something...
What Might Democrats’ Voting Rights Bill Entail?
Once again, Democrats in Congress have turned their attention to election reform. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said...
Americans Like What’s In The Build Back Better Act. They’re Lukewarm On The Bill Itself.
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. It looks like Democrats’ legislative agenda will have to wait until 2022. It...
Kyrsten Sinema Is Confounding Her Own Party. But … Why?
Most Democrats in Congress are united around the Democratic agenda, but a small number of senators and representatives have so...
Are Democrats Dysfunctional Or Just Disagreeing?
Narrow majorities and an ambitious policy agenda have proven to be a tough combination for Democrats. In the past few...
What Americans Think About The Fight Over The Debt Ceiling
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Democrats in Congress have their work cut out for them this fall. They...
Why House Democrats May Be More United Than They Seem
Two factions of the Democratic Party in Congress are currently playing tug-of-war over the centerpieces of President Biden’s legislative agenda....
