A sizable portion of the American population has been convulsing with outrage at President Trump for more than a year. Millions of people who previously took only mild interest in politics have participated in protests, fumed as they stayed riveted to news out of Washington and filled social media accounts […] Read more »
What Motivates Voters More Than Loyalty? Loathing
Hostility to the opposition party and its candidates has now reached a level where loathing motivates voters more than loyalty. The building strength of partisan antipathy — “negative partisanship” — has radically altered politics. Anger has become the primary tool for motivating voters. Ticket splitting is dying out. But perhaps […] Read more »
Donald Trump’s Short Congressional Coattails
It is one of the ironies of modern American politics that congressional Republicans have bound themselves virtually en masse to a president with some of the shortest coattails in a generation. For better or worse, Donald Trump has immersed himself in GOP politics — from fundraising to endorsing (and opposing) […] Read more »
Most Americans think Trump hasn’t done enough on Russian interference
… A new USA Today poll conducted with Suffolk University found that only a quarter of Americans thought that the Trump administration had done enough to counteract Russian meddling — but looking a bit more closely at the data reveals some interesting differences. One of the things that Suffolk does […] Read more »
Trump Losing College-Educated Whites? He Never Won Them in the First Place
After Donald J. Trump’s upset victory in the 2016 presidential election, one data point from the network exit polls jumped out at analysts: his two-point win among college-educated white voters. Many pre-election polls had suggested they would favor Hillary Clinton. And now, more than a year later, polls again show […] Read more »
CNN Poll: 6 in 10 concerned Trump isn’t doing enough to protect US elections
About 6 in 10 Americans say Donald Trump is not taking seriously enough the investigation into Russian efforts to influence the US presidential election, and about the same share lack confidence the president is doing enough to prevent foreign interference in future elections, according to a new CNN poll conducted […] Read more »