There’s a frequent number in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, and it’s not a good one for President Trump — 53 percent. Fifty-three percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job. Fifty-three percent hold a negative personal view of the president. Fifty-three percent don’t believe the president has been […] Read more »
Washington is trapped in a bad spy novel
It’s been a bad week in Washington and it’s not likely to get any better soon. In fact, it’s beginning to feel like the whole town and everyone in it is trapped in a really bad spy novel. … Polls are showing a tightening on the impeachment question raising flags […] Read more »
How Can Democrats Keep Themselves From Overreaching?
During my political lifetime, there have been four moments when the continuing viability of the Republican Party has been cast in doubt: the 1964 landslide defeat of Barry Goldwater, Watergate, the 1992 defeat of George H.W. Bush and the 2008 loss by John McCain. … There are some strategists — […] Read more »
Satisfaction With 2020 Candidates Is Running High
Three-quarters of U.S. Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say they are generally pleased with the selection of candidates running for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination. That is among the highest levels of satisfaction with candidates for the Democratic nomination Gallup has measured since it first asked the question in 1992, although […] Read more »
The Obama effect has helped Joe Biden with black voters. Will it last?
Fairly or unfairly, Joe Biden has been taking some heat over the fact that, while he was vice president, his son Hunter held a $50,000-a-month board position at Burisma, a Ukrainian gas firm. Democratic leaders are nervous about how his campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination has been responding. Meanwhile, […] Read more »
Public views Ukraine charges as serious, but half say Trump shouldn’t be removed, poll finds
A majority of Americans say the allegations that President Donald Trump asked a foreign leader to investigate 2020 rival Joe Biden are serious and need to be fully investigated, and they also believe the president hasn’t been honest and truthful about his actions. Still, the public is divided — largely […] Read more »