Trust that the U.S. Supreme Court is operating in the best interests of the American people has plummeted amid growing perceptions that the justices are partisans just like any other politicians, according to the latest Annenberg Public Policy Center survey, which includes questions tracking the court across more than a […] Read more »
Trust in Government on Foreign Problems Has Mostly Recovered
Americans’ trust in the federal government to handle international problems has mostly recovered from last year’s record-low reading following the United States’ troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The current 45% of U.S. adults who express “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of confidence in the government’s handling of foreign issues […] Read more »
Why the GOP can’t count on Joe Biden’s low ratings to sink Democrats
We are now under a month until Election Day, and you can feel the midterm campaign really taking hold. From Herschel Walker generating headlines for his troubles in Georgia to the Senate GOP campaign arm cutting bait in New Hampshire, we’re getting down to crunch time. All of this is […] Read more »
Joe Biden Knows How to Use Donald Trump
… Biden didn’t win the Democratic nomination in 2020 because he was the most thrilling candidate or because he had legions of die-hard supporters. The case most often made for Biden was that other people would find him acceptable. And that proved true. Biden was able to assemble an unusually […] Read more »
How much influence does Twitter really wield?
… Overall, only about a quarter of American adults say they ever use Twitter, according to the Pew Research Center. That number is a small fraction of some of the more dominant social media platforms. More than 80% of Americans say they use YouTube and about 70% say they use […] Read more »
Johnson and Barnes in tight Senate race in Wisconsin; Whitmer leads Dixon for governor in Michigan
It seems like Wisconsin elections are always pretty close these days, and here are two more following that trend. The Senate race has incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson running just one point ahead of Democrat Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes in a toss-up contest, and the governor’s race is currently even […] Read more »