At the beginning of the day on Wednesday, I said that the two most important things to watch for at Michael Cohen’s testimony to the House Oversight Committee were: 1. Does it put pressure on Democrats to call for an impeachment investigation? 2. Does it move public opinion of the […] Read more »
Florida’s ex-felon voting rules slow to impact registration
This past fall, citizens in Florida voted to give most former felons the right to vote and in doing so they may have fundamentally altered the electoral math in the nation’s swingiest perpetual swing state — or … maybe not. CONT. Dante Chinni & Sally Bronston, NBC News Read more »
New Hampshire Poll Shows Potential Problems for Trump a Year Out from 2020 Presidential Primary Season
With nearly 40 percent of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire saying they would welcome a primary challenger to President Trump, a new poll by the University of Massachusetts Amherst could highlight potential problems for the president. Thirty-nine percent of likely Republican voters in the Granite State said they […] Read more »
Poll Hub: The Debate over Gun Control in the United States
This week marked one year since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. According to the latest national NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll, the urgency for Congress to act on gun control measures has waned, but consensus exists on specific legislative proposals to curb such violence. CONT. […] Read more »
Most Americans incorrectly think gun-murder rates have gotten worse, not better
On the first anniversary of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., NPR, “PBS NewsHour” and Marist released a poll exploring views of various approaches to gun ownership in the United States. Many of the findings are what we’ve come to expect: broad support for expanded […] Read more »
State of the Union 2019 Dial Meter Test Results
On behalf of the Voter Participation Center and Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund, Democracy Corps conducted live dial-meter testing of the 2019 State of the Union address among the Rising American Electorate (African Americans, Latinos, white unmarried women and white millennials), white working-class women, and white college women. Here […] Read more »