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Presidential history where voters under the age of 55 made up a majority of the electorate. normally we on look at the babyboomers. voters 56 and older, normally the majority of presidential politics but no more. younger voters, and i think you agree me. younger voters who agree at this moment to favor biden and the democrats. this is a warning sign. is it not? >> republicans have been doing poorly under age 30 all the way to the mid two thousands. the last time you had a republican at the national level sort of hold serve with young voters was george w. bush running against john kerry in 2004...

Writing these new rules. >> and you always look to the middle of the electorate which can shift from election to election. if you look at the numbers, if you can bring them up on independents. joe biden performing 10 points better than hillary clinton among independents. what's the lesson there? >> you need to have more than just your base as part of your coalition. donald trump had been pretty good in 2016 about bringing new voters out. in this pew study you can see folks who were new to the study in 2016 tended to be pretty split between democrats and republicans. this idea that expanding ne...

From the blog of Itzik Yarkoni at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Alan Abrams at The Times of Israel

Two months ago, the chair of a board for a national Jewish organization shared that intermarriage keeps him up at night. There was nothing new about his concern. Jewish worry around intermarriage is ancient, springing from the Torah itself and millennia of commentary. For centuries, when a Jew chose to “marry out,” families sat shiva. Until relatively recently, there was no way for most intermarried couples to be wed by a rabbi, to mark the birth of children with Jewish rituals, or often, to continue Jewish communal engagement at all. Most Jews who fell in love with people who were not Je...