The majority of Americans think Congress should not begin impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump in light of the findings in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, according to the latest poll from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist. But nearly six in 10 Americans think questions about the president’s conduct […] Read more »
CNN Poll: With Mueller investigation over, Trump approval at 43%
With Robert Mueller’s investigation finished, Donald Trump’s approval rating stands at its highest level since April 2017 in a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, as the share who say Democrats in Congress are doing too much to investigate the President rises 6 points. Trump’s approval rating remains largely negative […] Read more »
Studying how law and order issues are framed has helped to uncover 2016’s shy Trump voters
Racial tensions surged back onto the American political agenda during the 2016 election. Following numerous mass protests and sporadic riots sparked by the deaths of people of color at the hands of police officers, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took opposite positions on the “law and order” issue. Clinton expressed […] Read more »
Bernie Sanders will be tested in 2020 as he never was in 2016
Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg signaled the start of a new political era for Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the front-runners for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination, with five crisp words. With those five words during last week’s CNN town hall marathon — “No, I don’t think so” — the South […] Read more »
A New Study Confirms (Again) That Race, Not Economics, Drove Former Democrats To Trump
… “Economic distress is not a significant factor in explaining the shift in Iowa voters from Democrat to Republican between 2008 and 2016,” write Iowa State University sociologists Ann Oberhauser, Daniel Krier, and Abdi Kusow. “The election outcomes do not signify [a revolt] among working-class voters left behind by globalization.” […] Read more »
The exoneration that wasn’t: A majority of Americans think Mueller didn’t clear Trump
There is at least one point on which a majority of Americans agree as it relates to the recently completed investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. According to new Washington Post-ABC News polling, more than half of Americans believe that the final report written by Mueller and his […] Read more »