Battleground States Poll: Impeaching and removing President Trump

By 52-44 percent, voters across six battleground states oppose impeaching and removing President Donald Trump from office according to a new The New York Times Upshot/Siena College (SCRI) poll of registered voters in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But, by 52-44 percent, voters across the six states […] Read more »

CNN Poll: Sanders and Warren fight for home field in New Hampshire

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (21%) and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (18%) are in a close race among likely voters in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation Democratic presidential primary, according to a new CNN poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire. Former Vice President Joe Biden stands a shade behind at 15%, […] Read more »

The changing Democratic electorate could upend Iowa’s role in 2020

… In every contested Democratic nomination race in this century, the winner of the Iowa caucuses has eventually won the nomination. That’s a measure of how much momentum candidates can earn, especially in this era of pervasive news coverage, from winning that kickoff contest. Conscious of that history, the leading […] Read more »

Little Reason to Think Republicans Will Abandon Trump Now

Despite the saying—usually misattributed to Albert Einstein—that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” it is a bit rash to declare crazy those who for three years have regularly predicted that the latest controversy or transgression would drive congressional Republicans to finally turn […] Read more »

Poll: Biden has a big lead. Another poll: Warren does. What’s going on?

On Wednesday morning, CNN published a new poll evaluating the state of the Democratic presidential primary fight. Former vice president Joe Biden had surged back into a healthy lead, enjoying a double-digit margin over Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who are jockeying for second. That was important […] Read more »

Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren? New Polls Differ on Who’s Leading 2020 Race

Just over three months before Iowans caucus for Democratic presidential candidates, four polls out this week present a muddled picture of a primary race that is unfolding in varying, and sometimes conflicting, ways nationally and in early-voting states. A pair of new national polls present starkly different results. A CNN […] Read more »