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The Atlantic But Democrats are taking their time weighing their next move. Logan Mock-Bunting / Redux With one move, Democrats could reshape government and potentially lock in their majority in the Senate for years to come. Four of their own stand in the way. The party may have just a few months to make it happen—but leaders in the House and Senate are taking their time and arguing about the details. Advocates see statehood for Washington, D.C., as a moral issue, because it would give equal rights and representation to the residents of a city whose population is larger than that of three st...

By Bruce Thompson - Dec 9th, 2020 05:05 pm //end headline wrapper ?> Donald Trump. Photo from whitehouse.gov. One of the strongest predictors of the vote in the state’s 72 counties in November was how they voted in 2016, when Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton but won the electoral college decisively. As evidence, consider the next chart, which compares the votes by county for the Democratic candidate in the two elections, and shows the same pattern of voting. The horizontal scale shows the number of Wisconsin votes for Clinton in 2016. T...

But what does interest me is i think joe biden's team is looking at these numbers heading into tonight where in a critical state like south carolina, he has 51% of the african-american democratic vote right now. kamala haris has 12, cory booker has 2. i don't know if that's giving them a lot of confidence going into tonight on this front. >> absolutely. and i do think he needs to be very responsive to the agendas for african-americans, the agendas for empowering women and the like. at the same time, if joe biden goes over and joins forces with elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, people are go...

Down the black vote. yes, you're going to get people excited but his strategy is create cleavages in traditional democratic coalitions. by him using race the way he has been he's trying to get african-americans to say baltimore is bad. i implore my brethren not to go for the hype. in some ways he wins by tamping down our vote, not necessarily increasing his base. i think part of the strategy, yes, will increase our turnout. i think he wants to get black democratic voters to say, you know what, the party hasn't done anything for me so i'm going to stay home. >> that's a great point. steve korna...

Steve laid out, and you think back to the obama years, we know president trump is clearly running for white working class voters in rust belt states like wisconsin. one of the obama campaign strategies was to drive up black voter turnout in places like milwaukee, and it worked for him. is this something we're not paying enough attention as this back and forth continues? >> because it's donald trump it's hard to analyze. in phil rucker's reporting, this probably was a reaction to elijah cummings and baltimore and now the campaign is backfilling the strategy. but the implication is mathematical ...