Fairly or unfairly, Joe Biden has been taking some heat over the fact that, while he was vice president, his son Hunter held a $50,000-a-month board position at Burisma, a Ukrainian gas firm. Democratic leaders are nervous about how his campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination has been responding. Meanwhile, […] Read more »
Trump’s focus on his base may not help him with impeachment inquiry
President Donald Trump may have more room to fall in public attitudes toward his possible removal from office, detailed results from several new polls suggest. While virtually every voter who approves of Trump’s performance in office already opposes impeachment, there’s still room for impeachment support to grow among voters who […] Read more »
Is Ukraine Getting Worse For Trump?
It’s now been almost two weeks since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry. In the past week, the House began taking testimony, at least one more whistleblower came forward, and FiveThirtyEight launched our impeachment polling tracker. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew takes a […] Read more »
What’s Behind Elizabeth Warren’s Rise In The Polls?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has come a long way in the polls since the early days of her 2020 presidential campaign. Back in April, she was polling in the mid single digits nationally, but she now leads a number of national and early-state polls. And based on polls from September and […] Read more »
Democrats Hold Edge in Party Affiliation in 3rd Quarter
More Americans continue to identify as Democrats or as “Democratic-leaning” independents than as Republicans or “Republican-leaning” independents. The current 47% to 42% Democratic edge is largely in line with what Gallup has measured over the past five years. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
More on Democratic Leftward Turn Survey Experiment
I appreciate all the discussion and critique surrounding my New York Times article that came out earlier this week. It has made me think harder about the structure of my study design and implications of my findings, and I now realize where I could have been clearer in presentation of […] Read more »