Category Archives: Demographics


Red states gaining, but beware of resting on laurels

December 29, 2007 – 9:41 am

I highly recommend the book How Congress Evolves by the late Nelson Polsby to any student or practitioner of politics. Polsby documents the interplay between Congressional rules, demographic shift, and partisan realignment. The essential fact was that Southern congressional districts fell to the Republicans as a result of southern migration from the traditionally Republican Northeast […]

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Huckabee, affluents, and the future of the GOP

November 26, 2007 – 5:16 pm

Seemingly every day, there is a new piece by a high-profile Republican/conservative attacking Mike Huckabee for being some sort of "big government" conservative or even liberal. Today, it was Bob Novak. I’m not going to quibble on the points, although I would point out that in Northern Virginia, where I sit, raising taxes to fund […]

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GOP and young voters

June 22, 2007 – 3:16 pm

Marc Ambinder is right about this:
Andrew Sullivan is in one sense correct: traditionally, the youngest cohort of voters dont’ show up at the polls. But the past two election cycles seem to be the start of a new trend: in ‘04, the percentage of 18 to 24 year olds rose by, I think I’m remembering […]

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