The big trends driving polarization

Plus: Latino voters provide opportunities for the GOP, Equis' 2022 postmortem, New York City's political tribes, BLM support drops, top-ranked podcasts

No. 271 | June 16, 2023

🗳️ Elections

Mark Murray and Alexandra Marquez: Here’s what’s driving America’s increasing political polarization (NBC News)

“It’s undeniable that the United States has become more politically polarized than it was a decade ago — as well as a decade before that.

In the spring before Harry Truman ran for a full term in 1948, two-thirds of Democrats (68%) and even half of Republicans (50%) approved of his job performance. By the time of Richard Nixon in the White House, the gap between his party’s approval of him and the opposition party’s grew to 47 points.”

Amy Walter: Latino Voters Who Sat Out Midterms Provide Opportunity for GOP in 2024 (The Cook Political Report)

“This week, Equis, an organization dedicated to, among other things, ‘creat[ing] a better understanding of Latinos’ and ‘innovat[ing] new approaches to reach and engage them,’ released an exhaustive, 131-page deck that explores Latino voter trends in 2022 and what those trends "portend for 2024.

While Equ…