Nearly one year into the Biden administration, a new national survey released today by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) highlights the stark differences along party lines in how Americans are experiencing changes in the country. PRRI’s comprehensive 12th annual American Values Survey, released in partnership with the Brookings Institution, […] Read more »
Biden, Democrats failing to sell agenda to American people
Negotiations on the infrastructure and social program bills have consumed Capitol Hill for months. Still, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday finds Democrats are failing to sell the legislation to the public, who are broadly unaware of what is in the spending packages or skeptical they would help people […] Read more »
County to County: Seven communities to watch for 2022
The 2022 midterms are a year away and much of the next 12 months will be spent looking for winners and losers and discussing the nation’s political balance of power. But the bigger, broader story in politics today is the identity crises in the nation’s two dominant political parties. What […] Read more »
Biden’s job rating sinks to 42% in NBC News poll a year from midterms
A majority of Americans now disapprove of President Joe Biden’s job performance, while half give him low marks for competence and uniting the country, according to results from the latest national NBC News poll. What’s more, the survey finds that 7 in 10 adults, including almost half of Democrats, believe […] Read more »
What the Virginia governor’s race can tell us about Democrats’ hope to keep control of Congress
Next week, Democrats could lose or come close to losing a governor’s race in a state that voted for President Biden by 10 points. So what does that mean for Democrats’ chances to keep control of Congress next year? … While we should be wary of over-interpreting one election, there […] Read more »
Who Will Show Up To Vote Next Year?
One significant piece of conventional wisdom that got turned on its head in 2020 was that higher turnout — especially among voters of color in states like Texas, Floria and Nevada — would solely benefit Democrats. Instead, many of these new voters, often younger and not typically engaged in politics, […] Read more »