One of the key reasons Republicans stuck with President Donald Trump for so long is because of his perceived electoral success. A quantitative look at the 2020 results, however, shows a president who underperformed the average GOP candidate. Some Republicans believe Trump has unlocked a winning formula and cultivated a […] Read more »
Biden’s First 100 Days
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, President Joe Biden assumes office during the most tenuous of times. What are his policy priorities, and what are the chances, in our divided society, that he will be able to make headway during his first 100 days in office? We discuss public […] Read more »
Medill Survey Shows Most News Industry Workers Believe Polls are Overused and Unreliable
People working in U.S. media believe 2020 presidential election coverage was generally fair, but they also think polling was overplayed and unreliable, according to the first-ever Medill Media Industry Survey at Northwestern University. The survey of nearly 1,400 members of the U.S. news media was conducted by Associate Professor Stephanie […] Read more »
Trump’s Parting Gift to Joe Biden
Donald Trump’s chaotic final days in the White House could present President Joe Biden with a historic opportunity to broaden his base of public support and splinter Republican opposition to his agenda. Recent polls have repeatedly found that about three-fourths or more of GOP voters accept Trump’s disproven charges that […] Read more »
Is America ungovernable now? Joe Biden is about to find out.
Joe Biden is now the president, even as a block of roughly 35 to 40 million Republican voters remains convinced that his victory on Nov. 3 was illegitimate, despite his capture of a decisive majority of the popular vote and the Electoral College. … Biden may look battered and worn, […] Read more »
As Biden Takes Office, Trump’s Shadow is Inescapable – at Least for Now
Given Donald Trump’s ability to dominate the news both before and during his presidency, it is perhaps not surprising that he remains the subject of the most immediately pressing political question in Washington: Should Senate Republicans use the pending impeachment trial in the Senate to forbid the outgoing president from […] Read more »