Two in three Americans say they have a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of confidence in the U.S. government’s ability to protect citizens from terror attacks. While this is still a sizable majority, the 67% who are confident is the lowest level that Gallup has measured since it first […] Read more »
Pollsters fret looming robocall restrictions
The Federal Communications Commission is catching flak from pollsters and high-profile political handicappers like Nate Silver over a new proposal to crack down on robocalls. The groups warn that restrictions to be voted on this month could increase roadblocks for those who conduct polls and survey research — two sectors […] Read more »
Inequality Troubles Americans Across Party Lines, Times/CBS Poll Finds
Americans are broadly concerned about inequality of wealth and income despite an economy that has improved by most measures, a sentiment that is already driving the 2016 presidential contest, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. The poll found that a strong majority say that wealth should be more […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: 65% believe NSA program prevented terrorist attacks in U.S.
Two-thirds of American voters believe the National Security Agency’s surveillance program has prevented terrorist attacks. At the same time, most lack trust in both the federal government — and phone companies — to protect their private information. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
The Average Joe’s Proviso
Democrats cannot win big or consistently enough, deep enough down the ticket or broadly enough in the states, unless they run much stronger with white working-class and downscale voters. That includes running better with white working-class swing voters, of course. But it also includes winning more decisively with white unmarried […] Read more »
Democracy and the Internet
American politics has long navigated uneasily between two forms of democracy: Republicanism and mass, or direct, democracy. … Advocates of direct democracy see the Internet as the tool that will give direct effect to their vision, curing defects in our democracy. The evidence isn’t really on their side. CONT. Mark […] Read more »