Author: Celinda Lake and McCauley Pugh
Celinda Lake is one of the Democratic Party’s leading political strategists. She was one of two lead pollsters for the Biden campaign in 2020 and continues to serve as a pollster to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), other national party committees, and dozens of Democratic incumbents and challengers at all levels of the electoral process. McCauley Pugh is a senior analyst at Lake Research Partners. He is originally from the Seattle area. He studied Politics and International Relations and Italian Studies at University College Dublin and has an MSc in Comparative Politics with a specialism in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Pres. Donald Trump’s lack of interest in environmental stewardship is well documented. He once said that rising sea levels might create more oceanfront property (this was a good thing, as far as he was concerned), and he’s made undoing environmental regulation, taking away support for efforts to mitigate climate change, and generally making it harder…
Republicans in both Washington, D.C., and Augusta have been talking a lot about wanting to cut Medicaid – ostensibly, to balance state and federal budgets and pay for new tax cuts for the wealthiest. But Republicans should tread carefully, because cutting Medicaid is extremely unpopular, particularly in the rural areas that Republicans depend on. A…
Many of us who follow politics know that New England has over the last several presidential elections been something of a Democratic stronghold. Since Pres. Bill Clinton’s victory in 1992 (and with the exception of Pres. George W. Bush in 2000) the Democratic presidential candidate has won every state in New England in every election,…