Sarah Longwell
Publisher of The Bulwark, focus group researcher, and political strategy analyst. She is the author of How to Eat an Elephant and specializes in the study of American voter behavior and political communication.
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Sarah Longwell found through focus group research that the AI issue began surfacing frequently in the campaigns of candidates such as Abigail Spanberger and Mikey Sherrill starting in 2025, and rapidly rose to become one of the top concerns among voters.
Longwell believes AI has become a political issue because it simultaneously touches three anxiety vectors: energy costs, land and quality of life, and the threat to jobs.
Longwell believes the DCCC's avoidance of the AI issue is a misjudgment, because in voters' minds AI and the economy and cost of living are the same thing.
Longwell argues that Democrats should replace the word 'democracy' with 'America,' because 'democracy' is an abstract high-level concept for voters and is already highly polarized.
Longwell predicts that after the new round of census in 2032, as population flows from California to Texas and from New York to Florida, the electoral map will be even less favorable to Democrats.
Longwell judges that if more people had voted in 2024, Trump would have won more votes, because the pattern of high turnout favoring Democrats has reversed, as white working-class voters have shifted toward Republicans over social issues.
Sarah Longwell is the publisher of The Bulwark, a focus group researcher, and the author of the new book How to Eat an Elephant.
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Longwell argues that Democrats should replace the word 'democracy' with 'America,' because 'democracy' is an abstract high-level concept for voters and is already highly polarized.
50%UnverifiedLongwell believes AI has become a political issue because it simultaneously touches three anxiety vectors: energy costs, land and quality of life, and the threat to jobs.
50%UnverifiedLongwell believes the DCCC's avoidance of the AI issue is a misjudgment, because in voters' minds AI and the economy and cost of living are the same thing.
50%UnverifiedSarah Longwell found through focus group research that the AI issue began surfacing frequently in the campaigns of candidates such as Abigail Spanberger and Mikey Sherrill starting in 2025, and rapidly rose to become one of the top concerns among voters.
50%UnverifiedSarah Longwell is the publisher of The Bulwark, a focus group researcher, and the author of the new book How to Eat an Elephant.
50%UnverifiedLongwell judges that if more people had voted in 2024, Trump would have won more votes, because the pattern of high turnout favoring Democrats has reversed, as white working-class voters have shifted toward Republicans over social issues.
50%UnverifiedLongwell predicts that after the new round of census in 2032, as population flows from California to Texas and from New York to Florida, the electoral map will be even less favorable to Democrats.
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