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The Path to 270 in 2020 Report

The Path to 270 in 2020

One year out from the 2020 election, the contours of the eventual vote, both demographically and in the Electoral College, seem clear—but the paths both parties may eventually choose to successfully harness these tangible trends remain in flux.

Ruy Teixeira, John Halpin

Voters Across Party Lines Support Clean Slate Legislation Article
Facade of Montgomery County Court House in Norristown, Pennsylvania, April 2018. (Getty/Bastiaan Slabbers)

Voters Across Party Lines Support Clean Slate Legislation

Voters overwhelmingly support clean slate legislation to automatically seal records for nonviolent crimes and marijuana possession. Support also crosses party and demographic lines for legalization of marijuana.

John Halpin, Karl Agne

Voter Trends in 2016 Report

Voter Trends in 2016

CAP’s comprehensive new analysis of 2016 turnout and voting patterns reveals important and surprising results about what happened in the election.

Rob Griffin, Ruy Teixeira, John Halpin

Toward a Marshall Plan for America Report

Toward a Marshall Plan for America

The economy is not producing access to a good, stable middle-class life for people who do not go to college. On prudential and ethical grounds, progressives must do more to create decent job opportunities and secure family situations for all working people facing difficult economic conditions not within their control.

Neera Tanden, Carmel Martin, Marc Jarsulic, 6 More Brendan Duke, Ben Olinsky, Melissa Boteach, John Halpin, Ruy Teixeira, Rob Griffin

States of Change Report

States of Change

Simulations indicate that the most successful route for minimizing future representation gaps lies in equalizing registration and turnout rates across races.

Rob Griffin, William H. Frey, Ruy Teixeira

The Path to 270 in 2016, Revisited Report

The Path to 270 in 2016, Revisited

Will fundamentals trump the candidates in determining the election outcome—or vice versa?

Ruy Teixeira, John Halpin, Rob Griffin

A Blending American Youth Interactive

A Blending American Youth

Decades of immigration have altered the racial and ethnic makeup of the United States, and it is today’s children who will be the vanguards of this new, diverse America.

Rob Griffin, Ruy Teixeira, William H. Frey

Election Oracle Interactive

Election Oracle

Demographics are not destiny, but they will have a significant effect on America’s political landscape.

Rob Griffin, Ruy Teixeira, William H. Frey

America’s Electoral Future Report
Acrowd of people walk during the morning rush hour in New York, 2010. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

America’s Electoral Future

The demographics of the United States are projected to become much more diverse in the coming decades and will have significant effects on presidential elections in 2016 and beyond. This report estimates those effects under a variety of different scenarios.

William H. Frey, Ruy Teixeira, Rob Griffin

The Path to 270 in 2016 Report
A voting booth in a community center, November 2004. (AP/Julia Cumes)

The Path to 270 in 2016

This report examines the upcoming 2016 election through a comprehensive analysis and projection of demographic and electoral trends nationally and in 12 battleground states.

Ruy Teixeira, John Halpin, Rob Griffin

States of Change Report
The demographics of the United States are projected to become much more diverse in the coming decades and will have significant effects on the nation's voting electorate in all 50 states.

States of Change

The demographics of the United States are projected to become much more diverse in the coming decades and will have significant effects on the nation's voting electorate in all 50 states.

Ruy Teixeira, William H. Frey, Rob Griffin

The Path to 270 Revisited Report
The 2012 presidential race is now a choice between two competing visions of American society and governance—one that promotes an active role for government in advancing individual opportunity, economic security, and national prosperity; and one that embraces personal responsibility, market forces, and limited government as a means for achieving growth and greater freedom. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

The Path to 270 Revisited

The complex mix of demographics, economics, and ideology makes the already-close presidential race even more vigorously contested.

Ruy Teixeira, John Halpin

Ruy Teixeira on the Path to 270 Electoral Votes Video
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Ruy Teixeira on the Path to 270 Electoral Votes

Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Ruy Teixeira outlines the demographic and economic factors that will drive the 2012 presidential election.

Ruy Teixeira

The Path to 270 Report

The Path to 270

Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin explain how the shifting demographic balance of the American electorate, and the objective reality and voter perception of the economy in key battleground states will both play huge roles in determining the 2012 presidential election.

John Halpin, Ruy Teixeira

The Constitution Is Inherently Progressive Article

The Constitution Is Inherently Progressive

John Podesta and John Halpin on how the values in the Constitution are those that both progressives and conservatives should cherish and protect.

John Podesta, John Halpin

The Demographic Change and Progressive Political Strategy Series Report

The Demographic Change and Progressive Political Strategy Series

A series of reports about the progressives response to demographic change throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States.

Matt Browne, John Halpin, Ruy Teixeira

The Origins and Evolution of Progressive Economics Report
This January 1935 photo shows a mural depicting phases of the New Deal. (AP/File)

The Origins and Evolution of Progressive Economics

Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin examine several core assumptions that broadly define a progressive approach to economics in terms of theory, values, and practice.

Ruy Teixeira, John Halpin

Politics Doesn’t Stop at Water’s Edge Article

Politics Doesn’t Stop at Water’s Edge

The Progressive Studies Program’s Progressive Authors Series hold an event with Julian Zelizer on his new book on how domestic politics shape foreign policy.

Justice Stevens’s Principled and Pragmatic Legacy Article

Justice Stevens’s Principled and Pragmatic Legacy

CAP’s Progressive Authors Series discusses a new book on the life and career of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

The Progressive Intellectual Tradition in America Report
The National Progressive Convention in Chicago is seen on August 6, 1912. As a philosophical tradition, progressivism in its most complete form developed as a “new liberalism” for a new century—updating the American liberal tradition from its Jeffersonian, small-government, republican roots best suited for the agrarian economy of the nation’s founding era to a more democratic and modern liberalism capable of checking rising corporate power. (Library of Congress)

The Progressive Intellectual Tradition in America

Part one of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the philosophical and theoretical development of progressivism as a response to the rise of industrial capitalism.

John Halpin, Conor P. Williams

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