(The Upshot): The 2020 presidential election is poised to have the highest turnout in a century, with the potential to reshape the composition of the electorate in a decisive way.
It’s even possible to imagine a future in which Republicans could effectively claim a monopoly on federal power despite continued weakness in the national vote.
Abortion is often cast as a clear, crisp issue in Washington and in state governments, with Republican and Democrats clustered in opposite corners. Joe Biden moved nearer to the rest of his party’s presidential contenders on Thursday when he dropped his support of a measure restricting use of federal funds for abortions.
Presidential primaries have been getting strange lately, and it started well before Donald Trump defied every expectation to win the Republican nomination.
So it is probably premature to confidently assess whether there’s an opening for Howard Schultz, a prospective third-party presidential candidate and the former chief executive of Starbucks.
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