Vance and Walz are still relatively unknown, but the governor is better liked | Polling data from battleground states | How many voters are persuadable? | Harris is starting to rebuild the Biden coalition | Will the “blue wall” stand in 2024? | 2024 polls show a ‘significant’ gender gap | K-12 Schools Struggle to Engage Gen Z Students … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240821-topline
OPINION TODAY newsletter for August 20, 2024
Tracking the Presidential Election: Harris maintains lead over Trump | How Americans perceive Harris’ racial identity | Where Harris has, and has not, rebuilt the Democratic coalition | Why So Many Young Men Are Leaving Democrats for Republicans | Beware of Mad Poll Disease In Good Times and In Bad | Americans’ Views of Marijuana Effects Worsen … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240820-topline
OPINION TODAY newsletter for August 19, 2024
Gender gap, enthusiasm, economy make for tight Harris-Trump race on Democratic convention eve | Favorable views of Kamala Harris have risen this summer heading into the DNC | Multiple pathways to victory for both Harris and Trump in reshaped race | Should Harris expect a convention bounce? | To Undecided Voters, Harris Is Famous, but Unknown | Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240819
OPINION WEEKEND newsletter for Aug. 17-18, 2024
Harris leads Trump overall but not on handling of the economy | Americans’ first impressions are positive for Walz, negative for Vance | Harris Puts Four Sun Belt States Back in Play | How much Kamala Harris could expand the map | Can Harris win back Biden’s Israel-Gaza critics? | GOP-Friendly Senate Map Dulls Candidate Quality Disasters | Finding common ground: 109 national policy proposals with bipartisan support | Tracking Attitudes About Elections and Political Violence Over Time … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240818
OPINION TODAY newsletter for August 16, 2024
Majorities approve President Biden dropping out of 2024 race, but don’t think he should resign | The Polls Have Shifted Toward Harris. Is It Real, or Something Else? | Harris has opened up a second path to victory | JD Vance is more unpopular than Sarah Palin | Democrats Lean Into Liberty and the Language of Republicans | Democrats Have New Hope in Battle for Senate Majority … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240816
OPINION TODAY newsletter for August 15, 2024
Harris Energizes Democrats in Transformed Presidential Race | The Fight To Redefine the 2024 Race for President | Can Harris Win Over “Uncommitted” Voters Worried About Gaza? | Can Democrats dare to dream of a trifecta? | Why Inflation Might Not Win the Election for Trump | Similar Shares of Republican, Democratic, and Independent Women Report Having Had an Abortion | How the GOP became the party of vaccine hesitancy … & much more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240815