On this episode of “Where Did You Get This Number?”, host Anthony Salvanto explores what Congress may do once special counsel Robert Mueller releases his report on Russia in the 2016 presidential election. He also discusses polling on the special counsel investigation and how those polls are constructed. Guests Ed […] Read more »
The Six Wings Of The Democratic Party
There’s a lot of news right now about conflicts within the Democratic Party, and similar stories will likely continue to pop up for the next two years. Much of this is normal and unsurprising. The American political system has only two major parties, resulting in those parties being large and […] Read more »
President Trump And America’s 2020 Presidential Election: An Analytical Framework
Trump 2020 Is A Stronger Candidate Than Trump 2016: Looking purely at Trump’s personal standing in 2016 vs. 2020, he is no worse for wear, with the greatest change in his ratings coming from the consolidation of support among Republicans after two years of providing wins for his GOP base […] Read more »
What Can A Candidate’s Home-State Popularity Tell Us About 2020?
In politics, the people who really know you are your friends and neighbors. At this stage in the election cycle, many Democratic presidential candidates have low name recognition nationally, which means that their popularity at home might be one way to help us understand whether they can appeal to a […] Read more »
‘Not productive anymore’: GOP strategist on partisan divide
As the Trump administration prepares to release its 2020 budget proposal on Monday, Hari Sreenivasan sat down with Republican strategist Frank Luntz for some perspective on issues ranging from the battle between Congress and the White House, border wall funding, and how extremism on both sides of the political aisle […] Read more »
Why bona fide crimes may not be enough to impeach Trump
A Quinnipiac University poll Tuesday carried this striking top-line number: 64 percent of Americans believe President Trump committed crimes before he became president. And 45 percent say they think he committed crimes while serving in the Oval Office. In that same poll, however, only 35 percent favor starting the impeachment […] Read more »