… For months now, voters have told reporters that they want to elect a woman — but after Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016, they simply can’t imagine a woman winning against Trump. And this calculus is often justified by beliefs about other people’s sexism — an Ipsos/Daily Beast poll in […] Read more »
‘Your Survey is Biased’: A Preliminary Investigation into Respondent Perceptions of Survey Bias
Collecting survey data has become more resource-intensive as response rates have declined. Contemporaneous to the decline in response rates has been a growing distrust in science among the general public in nations such as the United States. The authors suggest that this decline in trust has implications for survey data […] Read more »
Trump Fans the Flames of a Racial Fire
President Trump woke up on Sunday morning, gazed out at the nation he leads, saw the dry kindling of race relations and decided to throw a match on it. … His Twitter harangue goading Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to the country they came from, even though most […] Read more »
New polling shows how much sexism is hurting the Democratic women running for president
… We wanted to know whether attitudes that can be measured as “sexist” — meaning beliefs that women are less capable than men and overly sensitive to slights — are influencing Democratic voters’ choice about whether to support a female candidate in the 2020 Democratic primaries. For instance, when Democrats […] Read more »
Biden, Harris, Busing, Compromise and Public Opinion
The most significant storyline coming out of the June 27/28 Democratic primary debates was Sen. Kamala Harris’ attack on front-runner Joe Biden’s opposition to school busing in the 1970s, while he was serving as U.S. senator from Delaware. … I find at least nine different times during the 1970s when […] Read more »
Effective but never popular, court-ordered busing is a relic few would revive
… The Supreme Court agreed, unanimously endorsing busing as a legitimate means of unraveling the segregation of children by race. The 1971 decision launched an explosive chapter in American history, touching off a long and polarizing battle that set public opinion against busing for decades, even as the programs succeeded […] Read more »