Posts by Aaron Huertas
Catalist and TargetSmart partner to share phone data for voter outreach
Agreement will deliver more high quality phone numbers to clients
Read MoreCatalist Union Ratifies First Contract with Catalist
Statements from CWA Catalist Bargaining Team and Michael Frias, Catalist’s CEO
Read MoreCatalist Mourns Loss of Richard Trumka
WASHINGTON—Catalist, a leading progressive data utility, joined its allies in the labor movement today in mourning the loss of Richard Trumka, the AFL-CIO’s longtime president. Below is a statement from Catalist’s CEO Michael Frias, President Laura Quinn, and Board Chair Patricia Bauman: Richard Trumka fought hard for working people every day of his life. We’re…
Read MoreBiden can’t avoid a precarious balancing act. His voter base requires it.
David Lauter | July 2, 2021 The past week of posturing over the infrastructure deal that the White House negotiated with a bipartisan group of senators illustrates the difficult balancing act that has defined President Biden‘s tenure: Placate centrists and risk alienating progressives; nod to the left and risk attack from Republicans. So far, Biden has navigated the tightrope…
Read MoreThe Most Complete Picture Yet of America’s Changing Electorate
Republicans and Democrats have amassed divergent coalitions that will make coming elections especially competitive—and bitter. Ronald Brownstein | July 1, 2021 Can big data explain the passion and vitriol of American politics? Like almost everything else in modern life, the choices are multiplying for analysts looking to understand how the key groups in American society divide…
Read MoreBiden Gained With Moderate and Conservative Voting Groups, New Data Shows
President Biden cut into Donald Trump’s margins with married men and veteran households, a Pew survey shows. But there was a far deeper well of support for Mr. Trump than many progressives had imagined. Nate Cohn | June 30, 2021 Married men and veteran households were probably not the demographic groups that Democrats assumed would…
Read MoreProgressives’ Urgent Question: How to Win Over Voters of Color
A years long challenge for the left was starkly illustrated this week as its hopes faded in the New York mayor’s race. Lisa Lerer | June 26, 2021 Can progressives win broad numbers of the Black and brown voters they say their policies will benefit most? That provocative question is one that a lot of…
Read MoreHow Democrats can defy history in 2022
Ronald Brownstein | June 22, 2021 The huge voter turnout over the past three elections could scramble the usual dynamics of midterm voting — potentially providing Democrats their best chance to avoid losses next year that could cost them control of the House, the Senate or both. The president’s party has almost always lost ground in the…
Read MoreSchmidt: The rest of us can learn from couples coping with political, faith, racial differences
Lynn Schmidt | June 15, 2021 My father was the son of Polish immigrants. He was a Roman Catholic. My mother was the daughter of Solvak immigrants. She was a Byzantine Catholic. He grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. She grew up in South Philadelphia. They were told, by my paternal grandparents, that they…
Read MoreOut-of-Touch Media Elites Are Ignoring Working-Class Biden Voters
Eric Levitz | June 15, 2021 In the primary’s early days, the media treated him like an afterthought. At cocktail parties in Martha’s Vineyard and happy hours in the East Village, economic and cultural elites agreed that the candidate was more of a has-been — or a punch line — than a serious contender for the presidency. After…
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