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Jul 3, 2025 · He has strong thoughts about encouraging more American women to have babies, but thinks the addition of people to the country through illegal immigration is an existential threat to the US.

Sep 26, 2025 · The poll results identify five distinct types of independents, with big implications for American politics.

Sep 27, 2025 · A new CNN poll of independents shatters the myth of the classic swing voter who may go back and forth between political parties each election. CNN’s Jeff Zeleny breaks down the results …

Jul 11, 2025 · I talked to John Kenneth White, a professor emeritus of politics at Catholic University and the author of several books on American political parties, why they’re formed and where they’re headed.

Sep 19, 2023 · Americans’ outlook on national politics is best summarized as “dismal,” according to a wide-ranging new Pew Research Center report released Tuesday.

Nov 3, 2020 · But it was Nast’s insight to present American politics as one big, messy menagerie – a circus, much like the one Barnum & Bailey had debuted in New York three years earlier.

Sep 20, 2024 · The idea that Republicans are red and Democrats are blue may, today, feel embedded in the symbolism, branding and vernacular — think “blue” states and “red” states — of US politics.

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Jan 22, 2024 · The Democratic National Convention runs August 19-22 in Chicago. Are there primaries that are not so focused on political parties? Yes, but not for the office of president.