538’s Nate Silver breaks down what President Joe Biden’s approval rating 6-months on the job means for Democrats’ narrow majorities in Congress. This Week, ABC News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up here: opiniontoday.substack Read more »
Biden nets positive marks for handling pandemic, but vaccine resistance, Delta concern remains
Six months into President Biden’s administration, Americans are less apprehensive about the year than they were at the start of it. They think the battle against the pandemic is going somewhat well, though that’s tempered now by concern about the Delta variant. Most say their finances are okay, and most […] Read more »
Democrats See Edge in Early Senate Map as Trump Casts Big Shadow
Six months into the Biden administration, Senate Democrats are expressing a cautious optimism that the party can keep control of the chamber in the 2022 midterm elections, enjoying large fund-raising hauls in marquee races as they plot to exploit Republican retirements in key battlegrounds and a divisive series of unsettled […] Read more »
Democrats are making headlines on voting rights, but little more to counter restrictive efforts by Republicans
Democrats have produced the biggest headlines recently on the charged issue of voting rights. What they’ve yet to produce is an effective strategy to counteract the work Republican state legislators are doing to limit access and inject partisanship into the election process. More and more for Democrats, it looks like […] Read more »
Half the country believes a deadly conspiracy theory
The two most monumental events of the last year in the US were the election of Joe Biden to the presidency and the introduction of Covid-19 vaccines. Yet there are those who falsely believe Biden won only because of fraud or that they shouldn’t get a vaccine. Having either belief […] Read more »
Democrats Find Themselves Navigating the Politics of Fear
… Just as rivers have changed direction, last fall we saw an election change direction in the last month. Talk of a Democratic wave seemed to trigger a counter-movement, attributed by some to the Left’s calls to defund the police, abolish ICE, decriminalize immigration, enact Medicare-for-all, and pack the Supreme […] Read more »