Despite a far-right outcry about Donald Trump’s dealings with Congressional Democrats, it appears that the president’s base has not deserted him as his job approval rating remains stable in the latest Monmouth University Poll. While some Trump voters would be upset if he softened his position on a core issue […] Read more »
Trust in Judicial Branch Up, Executive Branch Down
Americans are more trusting now than they were a year ago in the judicial branch of the federal government, while they have less trust in the executive branch, and their trust in the legislative branch has not changed. As is typically the case, Americans place the greatest faith in the […] Read more »
How the GOP Prompted the Decay of Political Norms
President Trump’s approach to governance is unlike that of his recent predecessors, but it is also not without antecedents. The groundwork for some of this dysfunction was laid in the decades before Trump’s emergence as a political figure. Nowhere is that more true than in the disappearance of the norms […] Read more »
Winner of the GOP’s Civil War? The Democrats
The Republican Party has been divided before. There was Robert A. Taft versus Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater versus the moderate establishment, evangelicals versus pro-business Republicans, and more recently the Tea Party/Club for Growth/Freedom Caucus versus the GOP establishment. But the current divide in the Party of Lincoln looks deeper and […] Read more »
Economic Research Findings: Persuadable and Democratic Drop-off Voters
New research conducted on behalf of Priorities USA among key groups of persuadable voters and mobilization targets shows that there is a broad and growing identification of Donald Trump as someone who looks out first and foremost for the wealthy at a time when the economic situation for the middle […] Read more »
Seven in 10 Dissatisfied With Way U.S. Is Being Governed
President Donald Trump vowed to “drain the swamp” in Washington if elected president, but so far, Americans’ dissatisfaction with the way the nation is being governed shows no signs of easing. Twenty-eight percent are satisfied and 71% are dissatisfied, slightly more negative than last September when 33% were satisfied and […] Read more »