Strong majorities of Americans believe that both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump acted inappropriately when it came to their handling of classified documents, but in weighing their severity, a plurality of the public believes Trump’s actions were more serious, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. Over three-quarters […] Read more »
Democratic mayoral control in big cities is new ‘blue wall’
One group was noticeably absent among the biggest players in Washington, D.C. this week for the U.S. Conference of Mayors: Republicans. There are many ways to measure the much-discussed urban and rural divide in American politics, but one area with the steepest divide, at least on the urban side, is […] Read more »
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes
Existing research largely ignores Black support for punitive policies that target group members, even as this support challenges expectations of in-group favoritism and group solidarity. The current research fills this gap by leveraging a familiar concept: “the politics of respectability.” Building on historical and qualitative accounts of this worldview, which […] Read more »
How Right-Wing Media Ate the Republican Party
Nicole Hemmer, director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, explains why the roots of the G.O.P.’s ongoing identity crisis can be found in the 1990s. The Ezra Klein Show The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll […] Read more »
Generation Z is the most racially diverse and fastest-growing segment of the electorate
Generation Z voters, those ages 18 to 25, represent the fastest-growing portion of the electorate, growing from 0% in 2012 (when they were too young to vote), to 9% of all voters in 2022, according to merged data from NBC News polls during that period. … Not only the fastest-growing […] Read more »
The polarization paradox: elected officials and voters have shifted in opposite directions
During the past four decades, the two major political parties have steadily moved farther away from each other and are now as deeply divided as they have been for more than a century. For most of this period, analysts agree, Republican elected officials have moved more to the right than […] Read more »