It has been a rough couple of weeks for President Trump. His performance in the first presidential debate was widely panned; Trump and several members of his inner circle contracted COVID-19; and then the president said he was pulling out of the next debate, after the debate commission said it […] Read more »
Younger voters are pessimistic about the future, down on Trump
The youngest voters in America are pessimistic about the future, worried about the coronavirus, down on President Donald Trump and positive about the Black Lives Matter movement. Those are the major findings of a new national online NBC News/Quibi poll of millennial and Generation Z voters, which was conducted after […] Read more »
Top GOP Hands Brace for a Blowout
In talking to pollsters and political operatives in both parties over the past few days, I heard from nary a voice that thinks President Trump did anything other than hurt himself in last week’s debate. The only dispute is over how much. Yet before we could even get a good […] Read more »
Americans View Biden as Likable, Honest; Trump, as Strong
Among eight character dimensions, Americans’ perceptions of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden differ most on likability: 66% of U.S. adults believe Biden is likable, while 36% say Trump is. Americans are also more likely to perceive Biden than Trump as being honest and trustworthy and as caring about the […] Read more »
Confidence in Accuracy of U.S. Election Matches Record Low
Fifty-nine percent of Americans say they are “very” (19%) or “somewhat confident” (40%) that votes in the upcoming presidential election will be accurately cast and counted throughout the country, matching the low Gallup recorded in 2008. … The 11-percentage-point drop since 2018 in the national figure on confidence in election […] Read more »
Mike Pence avoided Roe v. Wade in Wednesday’s debate. Here’s why.
… Pence is a smart political operator — he could have articulated a strong, reasonably popular position if the question was framed around, say, late-term abortions. But Americans are risk-averse — even some who oppose abortion are skittish about sudden massive changes to existing policy such as overturning Roe. That […] Read more »