… Most Americans are skeptical about paying college athletes. But public opinion on this divides sharply by race. Most whites oppose “pay for play”; most African Americans support it. Why is opinion on this issue so polarized by race? Because a disproportionately large percentage of college basketball and football players […] Read more »
Gallup Vault: 72% Support for Anti-Lynching Bill in 1937
Although seven U.S. presidents petitioned Congress to take action and Congress itself introduced more than 200 anti-lynching bills between 1882 and 1968, the U.S. Congress never made lynching a federal crime. But some of the earliest Gallup polls conducted found majorities of Americans consistently supporting the passage of such a […] Read more »
We asked about Kanye in our poll and the results are not positive
Over half of Americans who heard about Kanye West’s comments on politics and slavery say he made them because he is seeking publicity, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Only 39% think West really believes in what he is saying. … The musician’s favorability rating is currently at […] Read more »
How Trump’s false claim about African American support happened
President Trump recently bragged about his support among African Americans, saying his poll numbers had “doubled.” His claim has been repeated thousands of times on TV and online. Some media figures have treated it as fact. But it’s not. The news organization responsible for the poll, Reuters, says its data […] Read more »
Macomb and America’s new political moment
On the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency, Democracy Corps traveled to Michigan to speak with the white working class Obama-Trump voters of Macomb County, the African American women of Detroit and the college educated women of suburban Southfield. Each, in their own way, had contributed to one of the […] Read more »
Choose Your Own Adventure: 2020 Presidential Edition
Not long after a presidential election, conventional wisdom sets in on how the losing party can win four years later. … One school of thought is for Democrats to win back the white, working-class voters that defected from Barack Obama/Bill Clinton to Trump in 2016. The other school, pushed by […] Read more »