People working in U.S. media believe 2020 presidential election coverage was generally fair, but they also think polling was overplayed and unreliable, according to the first-ever Medill Media Industry Survey at Northwestern University. The survey of nearly 1,400 members of the U.S. news media was conducted by Associate Professor Stephanie […] Read more »
Trump’s Parting Gift to Joe Biden
Donald Trump’s chaotic final days in the White House could present President Joe Biden with a historic opportunity to broaden his base of public support and splinter Republican opposition to his agenda. Recent polls have repeatedly found that about three-fourths or more of GOP voters accept Trump’s disproven charges that […] Read more »
Is America ungovernable now? Joe Biden is about to find out.
Joe Biden is now the president, even as a block of roughly 35 to 40 million Republican voters remains convinced that his victory on Nov. 3 was illegitimate, despite his capture of a decisive majority of the popular vote and the Electoral College. … Biden may look battered and worn, […] Read more »
Can Biden deliver on his bipartisan promises?
Newly minted President Biden made a pledge for unity in his inaugural address Wednesday, a stirring speech that reflected his desire to calm the roiling divisions enveloping the country. But the biggest test of whether he’ll be successful is if he’s willing to compromise with sizable Republican minorities, who remain […] Read more »
Strong majority feel positively toward Biden’s inauguration speech
More than eight in ten Americans rate President Joe Biden’s inauguration speech as good, according to an Ipsos snap poll conducted immediately following today’s speech. Eighty-three percent say Biden’s speech was very (57%) or somewhat (26%) good. There is bipartisan agreement on this: 97% of Democrats rate Biden’s speech as […] Read more »
Who helped Biden get the most votes in history?
On Election Day, Donald Trump won 74 million votes — 11 million more than in 2016. But Joe Biden accomplished a considerably more impressive feat: he attracted 81 million votes, 15 million more than Hillary Clinton did in 2016. Who were the Biden Democrats? An examination of the data reveals […] Read more »