There’s a lot on the line in 2020, but 99 seats now held by House Democrats will likely determine who occupies the White House, sits in the Senate Majority Leader’s office, and holds the gavel in the House of Representatives’ chamber. Some are nail-biter swing districts, and some are cakewalks […] Read more »
On The Many Gulfs In Climate Coverage
… Leah Stokes, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara studying public opinion and climate change, has research showing that congressional staff don’t have a handle on what constituents truly want. One of her team’s major findings is that aides who tended to meet more often with […] Read more »
Why Americans Don’t Fully Trust Many Who Hold Positions of Power and Responsibility
People invest their trust in institutions and those who have power for a variety of reasons. Researchers have found that people’s confidence in others and organizations can include their judgments about the competence, honesty and benevolence of the organizations or individuals they are assessing, as well as factors such as […] Read more »
The re-emergence of Kavanaugh controversy could hurt Democrats’ Senate chances in 2020
The re-emergence of the controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court has put Democrats in a challenging political position. Last year, amid allegations of sexual misconduct that Kavanaugh denied, the vast majority of Senate Democrats voted against his confirmation.The Senate elections that followed suggest a cautionary tale for […] Read more »
All Eyes Are Shifting to the Senate
This column argued six months ago that to the extent the focus of the political world wasn’t trained on the presidential election, it was on whether Democrats would retain their newly won House majority. It then argued that the Senate would eventually become the biggest non-presidential story—and that appears to […] Read more »
Maine Senate poll a Rorschach test
A poll obtained by Score showed Collins with a healthy lead over her main Democratic challenger Gideon — but the poll is a Rorschach test of sorts. The poll, which was conducted by the pollster Fabrizio Ward for AARP, was shared with the condition we not identify who passed along […] Read more »