In the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, most Americans — regardless of party — favor tightening restrictions on firearms, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll. But significant partisan divides remain — and perhaps relatedly, they exist alongside divides in knowledge about guns in America. CONT. […] Read more »
7 in 10 Want the Trump Administration to Make the Affordable Care Act Work Rather Than Make it Fail
As the Trump administration begins implementing Thursday’s executive order aimed at providing alternatives to the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace plans, a new Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds a large majority of the public (71%) want President Trump and his administration to do what they can to make the current law […] Read more »
How Long Are We Willing to Live With National Anxiety?
Seventy-three percent of U.S. adults are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., according to Gallup’s most recent poll conducted Sept. 6-10. In other words, three out of four Americans have a measurable degree of anxiety about the current state of the country or what to expect […] Read more »
How gun control advocates could break the NRA’s blockade
Since early in Bill Clinton’s first term as president, the National Rifle Association and its legislative allies have effectively stymied meaningful federal gun control legislation. … Gun control advocates face structural barriers in Congress — particularly the bias toward small and gun-friendly rural states inherent in the allocation of two […] Read more »
Trump’s Feud With Corker Takes Him To a Darker Place
Republicans woke up Columbus Day morning to the sights and sounds of the wheels coming off their midterm-election bus and their legislative jalopy. First came a widely publicized war of words between President Trump and the prominent Republican senator, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker. Then came a Bloomberg News […] Read more »
The Health of American Democracy: Comparing Perceptions of Experts and the American Public
Given widespread concern about the possible erosion of democracy in the United States, Bright Line Watch has conducted expert surveys since early 2017 asking thousands of professional political scientists to identify the dimensions of democracy they see as most important and to rate how well the U.S. is performing on […] Read more »