If you read the coverage of the October jobs report you’d think Americans should have been popping champagne and singing happy days are here again. Jobs up. Wages up. Unemployment down. The conventional wisdom also suggested that the good economic news would boost Hillary Clinton’s chances to win in 2016. […] Read more »
Americans fear guns over terrorism by large margin
When it comes to danger, voters are far more afraid of gun violence than terrorism. But like almost everything else this election season, there’s a partisan split, a new McClatchy-Marist poll finds. CONT. William G. Douglas, McClatchy Read more »
On the left and right, voters express anxiety over future
One year before the presidential election, a pervasive disquiet has shaped voter attitudes, with a majority of Republicans pessimistic about moral values and the increasing diversity of the country’s population, and Democrats uneasy about an economy they see as tilted toward the rich. … Those concerns — detailed in a […] Read more »
Millennials not so different when it comes to work
Conventional wisdom holds that the millennial generation, influenced by the 9/11 attacks, burdened with student debt and reared in a world of high-speed mobile devices, is a unique group of young people. But a special CNBC All-America Economic Survey focusing on millennials finds that while the generation has some unique […] Read more »
America: In Search of a Political Reset in 2016
A year from now, Americans will make history. The electorate is facing the most tumultuous time in American politics in at least 50 years — arguably a century — and their ultimate choice for president is almost certain to be a candidate who reflects the churning and tumult of a […] Read more »
The Sunny Perspective of an Influential Pollster
Stanley B. Greenberg was the senior pollster for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and President Nelson Mandela. In America Ascendant: A Revolutionary Nation’s Path to Addressing Its Deepest Problems and Leading the 21st Century, he writes that despite Washington gridlock, the diversity […] Read more »