More Americans overall disapprove than approve of President Donald Trump’s import tariffs on steel and aluminum, but Republicans back the president, and they believe the U.S. would come out ahead if a trade war were to ensue. CONT. CBS News Read more »
Announcing Civiqs: the coolest thing I’ve helped build since Daily Kos
Hey everyone, remember how polling sucks and you can’t trust it anymore because no one answers polls these days and you have a plethora of sketchy outfits spitting out garbage numbers? Back in late 2012, Dr. Drew Linzer—one of the top political statisticians in the country—and I chatted about the […] Read more »
The Founder Of Daily Kos Just Launched A Massive New Polling Project
Markos Moulitsas is a singular success story of the new media business. After the Army and college, he founded the original, ultimate liberal group blog, Daily Kos in 2002, which has survived all competitors and is now basically the last of its kind. He co-founded the sports site SBNation in […] Read more »
More U.S. College Students Say Campus Climate Deters Speech
Sixty-one percent of U.S. college students agree that the climate on their campus prevents some people from expressing their views because others might find them offensive. In 2016, 54% of college students held this view. These results are based on a 2017 Gallup/Knight Foundation survey of 3,014 randomly sampled U.S. […] Read more »
8 ways college student views on free speech are evolving
As college campuses across the United States grapple with questions surrounding the power and limits of free expression, a new Gallup-Knight Foundation survey of U.S. college students provides a view into how attitudes about the First Amendment on college campuses are evolving and what that means for our democracy. The […] Read more »
Trade Is An Identity Issue, And Trump Knows It
There is little question that when President Trump holds a rally in Moon Township, Pa., on Saturday night, he will tout the tariffs he imposed on imported steel and aluminum this week. Western Pennsylvania is steel country, after all, so his message should play well there. But it will likely resonate […] Read more »