Honest Graft
David A. HopkinsThe promise and puzzles of American politics
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Young People Are Fascinating—Just Don't Expect Them to Decide the 2026 Election
“Young Voters Vehemently Oppose Trump, ICE” reported the Yale Youth Poll this week, drawing on a national survey conducted in March that revealed substantial erosion of the president’s job approval since last year among respondents under th...
Republican Governing Mistakes Are the Great Partisan Equalizer
The Democratic Party faces a set of serious challenges. It has lost its former popularity among white voters without college degrees, a significant share of the national electorate that has shifted since the 1990s from mostly voting Democra...
Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results
- “Unless the president is unusually popular, the party holding the White House will suffer significant losses in off-year elections” is a very well-established pattern, so nothing about the Democratic electoral victories in New Jersey, Vi...
Honest Graft Podcasting with Chris Hayes and FiveThirtyEight
Along with Matt Grossmann, the co-author of my new book Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, I've recently appeared on two major podcasts devoted to American politics. You can hear...
In the 2024 Elections, It's a Man's Man's Man's Republican Party
One of the most important consequences of Donald Trump's political ascendance in 2016 was the effect it had on the political engagement of women. They played a leading role in the "Resistance" movement of anti-Trump activism in the 2018 and...
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Political scientist at Boston College & (co-)author of Polarized by Degrees / Asymmetric Politics / Red Fighting Blue / Presidential Elections. I blog about American politics at Honest Graft.
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