Republicans Optimistic, Democrats Afraid After Election | Trump starts on positive note as most approve of transition handling | Consumer confidence declines globally | Trump’s Cabinet: Many Ideologies Behind the Veil of ‘America First’ | From despair to action: Democrats plot their comeback … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/241125-topline
Public Narrowly Approves of Trump’s Plans; Most Are Skeptical He Will Unify the Country | Public Support for Making U.S. Government More Efficient | Expectations of the economy in a second Trump presidency | Most Americans say undocumented immigrants should be able to stay legally under certain conditions | American Teacher Survey | Election Forecasts Try to Go Beyond the Polls. Are They Helping? | The ‘Landslide’ That Wasn’t: Trump and Allies Pump Up His Narrow Victory | Trump and the Triumph of America’s New Elite … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/241124
In this election, demographics did not determine how people voted | Despite Trump win, Americans remain divided on key campaign promises | Few support pardoning Jan. 6th protestors, restricting women from combat | Lots of Republicans suddenly think the economy wasn’t that bad after all | How The Polls Did In 2024 … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/241122-topline
Donald Trump’s appointments, policy plans, and foreign policy | Older Americans are least confident after Trump’s win | Gun Ownership Rates Have Spiked Among Republican Women | How the partisan landscape has shifted after the election | How 2024 may shift our understanding of the political generation gap | Trump is burning his political capital quickly | Harris Is the Very Early Leader in the Race for the 2028 Democratic Nomination | Once again, polls underestimated Trump. Experts only have a hunch why … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/241121-topline
Just 29% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Matt Gaetz | Americans want Trump to focus on inflation in his first 100 days | 60% of Americans say they probably won’t get an updated COVID-19 vaccine | How Science Lost America’s Trust | America may have a new third party: the Democrats | Ban polls? … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/241120-topline
The news influencer universe and its audience | How Did Abortion Ballot Initiatives Impact the Presidential Vote? | The New Rules of the Youth Vote | Democrats won ‘highly engaged’ voters and struggled with everyone else | ‘Deliverism’ Didn’t Deliver for the Democrats | Trump’s 2024 ‘mandate’ isn’t as robust as Biden’s was in 2020 | Democrats aren’t alone — incumbent parties have lost elections all around the world | What Americans Expect From Trump’s Second Term … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/241119-topline
