Studying how law and order issues are framed has helped to uncover 2016’s shy Trump voters

Racial tensions surged back onto the American political agenda during the 2016 election. Following numerous mass protests and sporadic riots sparked by the deaths of people of color at the hands of police officers, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took opposite positions on the “law and order” issue. Clinton expressed […] Read more »

Could A Slew Of New Congressional Investigations Erode Trump’s Approval Rating?

Investigation season is here. The House Oversight and Reform Committee announced Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer, will testify publicly on Feb. 7, which will be followed the next day in the House Judiciary Committee by public testimony from acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. … At their core, congressional investigations […] Read more »

85% of Republicans Reject That Climate Change Is a Serious Problem That Requires Action

The United States remains the only developed democracy where The Climate Change Debate is primarily over whether climate change is real. Most places, the debate is over what to do about it. But not in the World’s Greatest Democracy, where one of the two major political parties our system allows […] Read more »

The Midterm Messages That Matter

Ask any political analyst what midterm elections are about and they will respond, “midterms are almost always referenda on the incumbent president,” and the statistics bear them out. … But just how challenging a midterm election will be for a president’s party is largely determined by which party does the […] Read more »