… For all the spinning and posturing there remains a fundamental challenge for the Republicans: the tax bill won’t become more popular unless the president becomes more popular. In fact, if you look at national support for the tax legislation, you will see that it lines up almost exactly with […] Read more »
Report from Dial Meter Testing of SOTU 2018: No Sugar High for Trump
President Donald Trump delivered a remarkably unsuccessful, unimpactful State of the Union on Tuesday. This is according to live dial-meter research conducted for Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund by Democracy Corps among 108 Rising American Electorate (RAE) voters – the voters that will decide control of Congress in 2018. […] Read more »
2017 Partisan Gap in Economic Confidence One of the Largest
Republicans’ and Democrats’ views of the U.S. economy, as measured in the Gallup Economic Confidence Index (ECI), diverged more in 2017 than they have in several years. Last year’s average 68-point gap between Republicans’ and Democrats’ ECI scores roughly matches the gap seen in 2012, and before that in 2005 […] Read more »
Americans’ Take on 8 Themes in Trump’s State of the Union
President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. Here is a look at the public opinion context for eight themes that Trump emphasized in his speech: CONT. Megan Brenan, Frank Newport & Lydia Saad, Gallup Read more »
Trump Is Making 2018 Much Harder for Republicans
Like colliding storm systems, the three central dynamics shaping the 2018 electoral battlefield converged in President Trump’s first State of the Union address on Tuesday. And control of Congress may turn on which one of these forces voters weigh most heavily. The first dynamic is the buoyant state of the […] Read more »
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index Improved
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® increased in January, following a decline in December. The Index now stands at 125.4 (1985=100), up from 123.1 in December. CONT. Conference Board Read more »