New polling from CNBC’s All-America Economic Survey shows average Americans slightly favor the social spending bill. CNBC’s Steve Liesman joins ‘Squawk Box’ to break down the findings. CNBC The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up here: opiniontoday.substack Read more »
Democrats Stare Into the Abyss
Since mid-summer, Democrats have been trapped in a downward spiral of declining approval ratings for President Joe Biden, rising public anxiety about the country’s direction, and widening internal divisions over the party’s legislative agenda. The next few weeks will likely determine whether they have bottomed out and can begin to […] Read more »
Racing Apart: Partisan Shifts on Racial Attitudes Over the Last Decade
… The 2020 election took place amid a remarkable shift in attitudes about issues related to racial, ethnic, religious, and national identities. After decades of relative stasis in racial attitudes, Democrats and independents became dramatically more liberal on these issues. This leftward shift was already underway as of the 2016 […] Read more »
Manchinism can help the Democrats. Sinema’s politics are a dead end.
Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) and Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) are mentioned in the same sentence so frequently that there’s a raging battle on Twitter over whether Manchinema or Sinemanchin is the correct portmanteau. But despite the obvious similarities between the two most conservative members of the Democrats’ Senate caucus […] Read more »
Democrats’ Big Political Tent Helps Explain D.C. Stalemate
The policy disagreements that have stalled Democrats’ passage of infrastructure and budget bills in Congress echo the mix of political viewpoints that exists among Democrats nationally. Here are five key insights about the Democratic Party’s ideological diversity today. 1. The Democratic Party is more varied politically than the Republican Party. […] Read more »
Center for Politics/Project Home Fire Findings: Biden Voters More Likely to Value Compromise
Key Points• Voters who supported Joe Biden are likelier to be among the strongest supporters of compromise than Donald Trump voters, and there also are markedly more women in this group than men. These voters prioritize taking proactive steps to address concerns they have about the nation.• Trump voters are […] Read more »