President Biden is seeing his highest approval ratings in almost a year, while former President Donald Trump, who is hoping to take the job back, is getting his worst scores among potential Republican voters in years, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. The survey — conducted last week, after […] Read more »
Biden and Trump face headwinds going into 2024, poll shows
The 2024 presidential election campaign season remains several months away, and while much can change, the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll shows both Democrats and Republicans are already sizing up potential candidates. Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have maintained large shares of support among their respective bases. […] Read more »
U.S. LGBT Identification Steady at 7.2%
After showing perceptible increases in 2020 and 2021, U.S. adults’ identification as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual held steady in 2022, at 7.2%. The current percentage is double what it was when Gallup first measured LGBT identification a decade ago. … Adult members of Generation Z, […] Read more »
Myths about Biden’s electoral strength could spell trouble in 2024
It always amazes me how quickly we forget the anxiety that surrounds close elections. The five anxious days it took for The Associated Press and networks to call the outcome of the 2020 election is burned into the brains of close election-watchers like me. Yet some commentators have developed overly […] Read more »
Trump is exploiting an anti-trans turn in public opinion
Donald Trump’s new gender policy proposals — which would bar federal agencies from promoting “the concept of sex and gender transition at any age” and require the government to recognize male and female, as assigned at birth, as the only genders — are aimed both at his fervent base and […] Read more »
How an old debate previews Biden’s new strategy for winning senior voters
… Whether Biden proves more effective than other recent Democrats at attracting older voters around Social Security and Medicare will likely pivot on whether seniors believe the GOP genuinely would cut the programs if given the power to do so, argued Robert Blendon, a professor emeritus at the Harvard School […] Read more »