Examining Biden’s drop among young and nonwhite voters

Plus: More book coverage, a polling experiment on abortion and democracy, who the Harris-not-Biden voters are, America's population bust, and the politics of TikTok

No. 293 | November 24, 2023

 🐘 Party of the People

Why non-white voters are abandoning the Democratic Party (The Economist)

“‘Party of the People’, a book by Patrick Ruffini, a Republican pollster and data maven, brilliantly dissects the changes within the disparate voting blocs in America, combining rich data analysis with vignettes from American history. Democrats misunderstood Hispanics, cringingly insisting on rebranding the race as “Latinx” and mistaking a pathway to citizenship for illegal migrants as their most pressing concern. Polling shows that Hispanics are almost as likely to support border security as other Americans. Second- and third-generation Hispanics are more likely to be Republican, mirroring a rightward shift that was seen with white Catholics, once the fuel of the Democratic city machines, over the last century.”

Andrew Egger: A Party in Trump’s Image (The Dispatch)

“Andrew Egger is joined by Patrick Ruffini, a Republican pollster and co-founder of Echelon Insights. …