As the nation prepares to transition to Donald Trump’s administration, solid majorities of Americans are satisfied with the U.S. quality of life, the opportunity to get ahead by working hard and the nation’s military strength. They are much less satisfied with the state of race relations, the nation’s efforts to […] Read more »
Donald Trump and the Triumph of Climate-Change Denial
Denial of the broad scientific consensus that human activity is the primary cause of global warming could become a guiding principle of Donald Trump’s presidential administration. … Scientific reality does not seem to have escaped the distorting influence of political polarization in the United States. A paper published in Environment […] Read more »
West Virginia: How the Bluest State Became the Reddest
The American political landscape has changed a lot over the past 25 years but there is no more dramatic shift than the one that has pushed this state from deep blue to ruby red. In the 1992 presidential election, Democrat Bill Clinton won West Virginia by a solid 13 percentage […] Read more »
How Carbon Emissions Explain Trump’s Win
For Democrats, the lingering question of whether it was demographic or economic anxiety that primarily motivated Donald Trump’s coalition is a little like poet Robert Frost asking whether the world will end in fire or ice. The answer may be the same, too. Frost, of course, concluded that either would […] Read more »
American Voters Support Action on Climate Change
A new nationally representative survey conducted shortly after the election finds that, across party lines, 69% of registered voters say the U.S. should participate in the international agreement to limit global warming, compared to only 13% who say the U.S. should not. CONT. Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Read more »
Higher U.S. Stocks Expected in 2017 by Most in Bloomberg Poll
A majority of American adults — 54 percent — are bullish on the U.S. stock market for 2017 and almost four in 10 say they anticipate being in a better financial situation during the upcoming year than they are now. CONT. John McCormick, Bloomberg Politics Read more »