… Very rarely do State of the Union speeches meaningfully improve presidents’ approval ratings. Moving numbers is not really the key objective, and that should not be the criteria by which they are judged. Examining ratings before and after these addresses demonstrates that since 1978, the average State of the […] Read more »
Two-Thirds of White Evangelicals, Most Republicans Sympathetic to Christian Nationalism
A major new national survey conducted jointly by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Brookings Institution finds nearly two-thirds of white evangelical Protestants qualify as either Christian nationalism adherents (29%) or sympathizers (35%), and more than half of Republicans are classified as adherents (21%) or sympathizers (33%). This is […] Read more »
The “State of the Union” is whatever your partisanship tells you it is
In anticipation of President Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, public pollsters released poll results reporting on, well, the “state of the union” and how Americans feel about Biden. There is increasingly only one lesson from these polls: Partisanship determines how we see the nation and our […] Read more »
Biden is in a weak position heading into the State of the Union
State of the Union addresses are supposed to be a high mark of sorts for a president. The president has the nation’s attention as he describes his accomplishments and agenda going forward. And while President Joe Biden will certainly do those things Tuesday night, he faces a tall task. Biden’s […] Read more »
In divided nation, Americans do agree on this: Biden should talk about economy — CBS News poll
The state of our union is … ? We asked people to describe it, and received some dour assessments: they picked “divided” most of all, followed by “declining” and “weak.” Few picked adjectives “strong,” or — amid tough economic ratings — “prospering.” These aren’t just one-sided partisan points. Partisans share […] Read more »
Politics Abhors a Vacuum
Jeff Dufour talks to Cook Political Report with Amy Walter founder and National Journal columnist Charlie Cook about Nikki Haley being poised to enter the 2024 presidential race and President Biden’s upcoming State of the Union address. National Journal Radio podcast Read more »