Most Americans trust their healthcare providers to be honest and ethical, but few other professions fare so well in Gallup’s annual look at honesty and ethical standards among various fields. Nurses top the list with 84% of the public rating their standards as “high” or “very high,” while members of […] Read more »
56 Interesting Facts About the 2016 Election
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s victory was definitely THE most interesting thing that happened in the 2016 election, but it certainly wasn’t the only interesting thing. In keeping with our end-of-cycle tradition, we found 56 more interesting things to tide you over during the holidays as we take a well-earned […] Read more »
This Election Was Not About the Issues. Blame the Candidates.
If you think back to this year’s presidential campaign and recall a lot of articles mentioning Hillary Clinton’s email troubles and Donald J. Trump’s various controversies, you wouldn’t be wrong. If it seems there were fewer articles about jobs, the economy and taxes, that’s because there were. The temptation to […] Read more »
The advertising decisions that helped doom Hillary Clinton
… Strategic decisions can make all the difference in a close race. Clinton lost the White House (despite winning the popular vote) to Republican Donald Trump on the strength of about 100,000 votes in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. That is the definition of a close race. But a review of […] Read more »
The Election Polls That Matter
… “Big data” is a buzzword, but that concept is outdated. Campaigns have entered the era of “little data.” Huge data sets are often less helpful in understanding an electorate than one or two key data points — for instance, what issue is most important to a particular undecided voter. […] Read more »
Why Does This Election Have Us So Down? Social Science May Have An Answer
U.S. politics have long been marked by disagreement and even rancor. But 2016 feels worse than usual. NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast offers one explanation why, from deep in our psychological frameworks. NPR Read more »