More than half of U.S. residents say their feelings towards President Donald Trump have become “more unfavorable” since he took office according to the newest edition of the Grinnell College National Poll, released Oct. 29, 2019. The poll, a partnership between Grinnell College and nationally renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer […] Read more »
What Would Happen If American Voters All Got Together And Talked Politics?
There is a story that Stanford University political science professor Jim Fishkin likes to tell about George Gallup, the man who helped popularize public opinion polling in America. After the 1936 presidential election — which Gallup’s polling correctly called for Franklin D. Roosevelt — Gallup delivered a lecture at Princeton […] Read more »
We Need a Fourth Branch of Government
In ancient times, politics was born of the belief that we can be masters of our own fate, and democracy became a continuing, innovative project to guarantee people a say in public decisions. Today, however, we live in a paradox. Humanity has created vast wealth and technological know-how that could […] Read more »
The young Climate Strikers marching this week are all fired up and ready to vote.
Since 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived by solar-powered sailboat on Aug. 28, she has taken the U.S. by storm. She and others in her “Fridays for Future” movement protested climate inaction in front of the United Nations; marched by the White House; testified in a joint congressional hearing on […] Read more »
There’s evidence that climate activism could be swaying public opinion in the US
Nathaniel Geiger, Indiana University Climate activists walked out of classrooms and workplaces in more than 150 countries on Friday, Sept. 20 to demand stronger action on climate change. Mass mobilizations like this have become increasingly common in recent years. I’m a scholar of environmental communication who examines how people become […] Read more »
On The Many Gulfs In Climate Coverage
… Leah Stokes, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara studying public opinion and climate change, has research showing that congressional staff don’t have a handle on what constituents truly want. One of her team’s major findings is that aides who tended to meet more often with […] Read more »