In rural parts of America, it wasn’t just white men who flocked to the polls on Election Day to vote for Donald Trump. Rural white women were right there in the voting lines with them. The NBC News national exit poll documented how Trump and his populist message disproportionately appealed […] Read more »
Public Opinion’s Agenda and Trump: Economic Growth, Healthcare, Immigration, and Infrastructure
The Trump administration will face a public agenda which is mostly domestic in focus. The American public’s number one priority is jobs and the economy. Terrorism as a concern comes in second and is especially important among Republicans. CONT. Clifford Young, Ipsos Public Affairs Read more »
U.S. Economic Confidence Surges After Election
Americans’ confidence in the U.S. economy increased sharply after the election, moving from a slightly negative evaluation (-10) to a slightly positive one (+3). Gallup’s U.S. Economic Confidence Index had been consistently negative throughout the year leading up to the election. … The increase in economic confidence mostly stems from […] Read more »
Pulling Democrats Back to ‘It’s the Economy, Stupid’
The Democrats’ stunning defeat in the presidential race and continued struggles in lower-level contests have jolted party leaders into concluding that their emphasis on cultural issues has all but crippled them by diverting voters’ attention from the core Democratic message of economic fairness. … Over President Obama’s two terms, Democrats […] Read more »
Trump and Brexit: why it’s again NOT the economy, stupid
For months, commentators have flocked to diagnose the ills that have supposedly propelled Trump’s support, from the Republican primaries until now. As in Britain, many have settled on a ‘left behind’ narrative – that it is the poor white working-class losers from globalization that have put Trump over the top. […] Read more »
Yes, working class whites really did make Trump win. No, it wasn’t simply economic anxiety.
We knew all along that Donald Trump drew his strength from the white working class. We knew this from the patterns in the primaries. We knew this from the nonstop polling conducted over the past 18 months. We knew this from all of the campaign-trail dispatches showing his anti-trade, anti-elite […] Read more »