Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. Sometimes when I’m out on the campaign trail, I get the feeling that the entire Democratic Party is suffering from a very acute case of PTED — post-traumatic election disorder. So much of the way primary voters think about the 2020 race is rooted in lingering disappointment about how 2016 turned out. Those who think sexism defeated Hillary Clinton say they worry about voting for another woman. Now, the preliminary findings of an interesting study by two political scientists at the University of Denver are shedding some light on how the political past may influence the way Democratic primary voters think about the future.

Source: New York Times May 23, 2019 21:45 UTC