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Poll shows strong support for public lands protections, unpopularity of Trump administration’s ‘energy dominance’ agenda

The ninth annual Colorado College State of the Rockies Project Conservation in the West Poll released today shows voters in the Mountain West continue to support efforts to keep public lands protected and accessible, putting them at odds with the Trump administration’s “energy dominance” agenda. The poll surveyed the views […] Read more »

The ‘Rotten Equilibrium’ of Republican Politics

One clear lesson from the elections of 2016 and 2018 is that President Trump and his fellow Republican candidates win where white voters are losing ground. Take a look at the 2018 congressional results in the upper Midwest and Pennsylvania, states that provided the Electorate College votes crucial to Trump’s […] Read more »

When shutdown politics add to economic woes, nobody wins

The Congressional Budget Office told us this week that the U.S. economy is likely to take a $3 billion hit from the partial government shutdown, assuming federal employees will get their back pay. $3 billion is a significant amount, but it is likely to have a relatively small impact in […] Read more »

Trump has lost ground on his strongest issue

President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has been consistently low. Yet, he always had an ace in his back pocket: the economy. It’s not that the economy would necessarily save Trump come 2020, but it gave him a shot. Multiple polls released over the last two weeks showed Trump’s economic […] Read more »

Republicans, Democrats both see less reason for optimism in 2019 than they did in 2018

Americans have mixed expectations for the year ahead: 47% say they expect 2019 will be better than 2018, while 43% say it will be worse. Last January, the public had a more optimistic view of the coming year, with 61% saying 2018 would be better than 2017. … As has […] Read more »