As members of Congress prepare for a vote on impeachment, 51% of Americans want their representative to vote in favor of impeachment, while 40% want their representative to vote against. This 11-point edge is virtually identical to (and marginally larger than) the 8-point edge in support for impeaching Trump overall. […] Read more »
How the Internet Came to Loathe Pete Buttigieg
… The Buttigieg backlash, just like this spring’s first flush of Buttigieg mania, has a dorm-room atmosphere about it; it is most intense within his own cohort of young, mostly white, college-educated liberals, who are torn between a mounting discomfort with their own privilege and an instinctive comfort with their […] Read more »
IBD/TIPP Poll: Biden Keeps Grip On Democratic Race; President Trump Now Leads Warren, Sanders
Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead the race for the Democratic nomination, the December IBD/TIPP Poll shows. Biden garnered 26% support, down slightly from 29% in November but the same reading as in October. And in head-to-head polls, only Biden among major Democratic candidates still leads President Trump, […] Read more »
Opinions Of Impeachment Remain Unchanged; Signs Point To Base Election In 2020
Surprise, surprise. Americans’ views of impeachment are split and largely unchanged, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll. With the House expected to impeach President Trump by the end of the week, and after hours upon hours of congressional testimony, 48% of the country opposes impeachment, while 47% supports it. […] Read more »
USA Today Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term
President Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads his top Democratic rivals in his bid for a second, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. The national survey, taken as the House of Representatives planned an impeachment vote and […] Read more »
Three reasons why the Democrats’ Blue Wall crumbled
The story of why Democrats lost in 2016 has been dissected by journalists, activists and politicians since the moment Donald Trump won, with an array of explanations offered for what went wrong for the party. But one indisputable fact is that had Democrats won in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, President […] Read more »