Democrats

The Wrap -  Ratings for Night 2 of the Democratic National Convention just slightly outpaced the Chicago event’s opening night.  As second gentleman Doug Emhoff, former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama took the stage at the DNC, coverage for Tuesday, Aug. 20 drew in 20.8 million viewers — up 3.8% from Night 1, which brought in 20 million viewers, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day figures. 

NY Times - Even before Harris rose to the top of the ticket, some Democrats were warning that their party was leaving men behind. A New York Times/Siena College poll taken in July, just after President Biden stepped aside, showed Trump winning 56 percent of male voters, while Harris was winning just 37 percent of them.“I’ve always thought that the party had become, its culture had become over-feminized,” said James Carville, who generated, um, a lot of attention when he told the New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd in the spring that there were too many “preachy females” dominating the party.