Two years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party, and with a record number of women running for Congress in 2018, a majority of Americans say they would like to see more women in top leadership positions – not […] Read more »
Record-Low 12% Cite Economic Issues as Top U.S. Problem
A record-low 12% of Americans currently cite some aspect of the economy as the most important problem facing the U.S., down from 17% last month and one percentage point below the previous low of 13% recorded in May 1999. Mentions of the economy as the top problem reached 86% in […] Read more »
Raw tensions over race and gender shape midterms, reflecting schism in Trump era
… Raw tensions over race, gender and personal identity are shaping battleground contests from Upstate New York to the Deep South, reflecting the deep schism in the country during the Trump era and the increasingly stark demographic divide between the two political parties. With just one primary day left, on […] Read more »
New Poll Finds Latino Voters Still Ignored in Lead Up to Election 2018
As Latino voters prepare to head to the polls in less than two months, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund and Latino Decisions released the results of the first wave of a ten-week tracking poll of Latino registered voters. … “This poll confirms what […] Read more »
NBC/WSJ poll: Majority say kneeling during anthem ‘not appropriate’
A majority of voters say that it is not appropriate for NFL players to kneel during the national anthem to protest racial inequality in the United States, although the country is deeply divided on the question along partisan and racial lines, a poll released Friday from NBC News and The […] Read more »
The Last ‘Year of the Woman’
More women are running for office in the 2018 midterm elections than in any other election in American history. “The Daily” speaks to Senator Dianne Feinstein about what this moment shares with 1992, another record-breaking “Year of the Woman.” New York Times Read more »