Many Americans still express reluctance about getting vaccinated for COVID-19, which could leave many unnecessarily vulnerable to the disease and hinder the country’s return to normalcy. Many wonder whether presidents — especially former President Trump — could impact people’s willingness to get vaccinated. CBS News ran an experiment to explore […] Read more »
We See the Left. We See the Right. Can Anyone See the ‘Exhausted Majority’?
… Morris Fiorina, a political scientist at Stanford, argues in a series of essays and a book, “Unstable Majorities,” that it is the structure of the two-party system that prevents the center — the moderate majority of American voters — from asserting their dominion over national politics: Given multiple dimensions […] Read more »
Without Trump to kick around, GOP’s blue-state govs sink
As recently as October, Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker was basking in his typically stratospheric poll ratings. More than 70 percent approved of his job performance. Roughly the same amount felt the same way about his handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Those were the days. Since then, Baker’s numbers have […] Read more »
Godzilla & The GOP (with Tony Fabrizio)
Veteran Republican pollster and strategist Tony Fabrizio, who served as Trump’s chief pollster in ’16 and ’20, joins Axe and Murphy to discuss his analysis of the five “tribes” that make up the current Republican Party and what it says about the power Trump holds over the GOP. Plus, in […] Read more »
What Will Turnout Look Like Without Trump?
… Donald Trump’s ability to capture media and popular culture attention is unparalleled. We don’t know what happens when he is no longer the center of attention. Will the voters he energized (good and bad) remain engaged without him? And, what about the folks who may not have sat out […] Read more »
Large Majority of the Public Views Prosecution of Capitol Rioters as ‘Very Important’
As the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies continue to pursue charges against participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the American public generally expresses strong support for continuing these efforts. Yet there are sizable partisan differences in attitudes about the riot at the Capitol, with […] Read more »