Key Points• If the Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade later this year, it could hypothetically energize Democratic voters in the 2022 midterms. But it’s unclear whether abortion will become a big enough motivator for Democrats to overcome the historical pattern of unfavorable midterms for the party controlling the White […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Kemp leads Perdue in Georgia’s GOP primary race for governor
Over a year after narrowly losing re-election to the U.S. Senate from Georgia, David Perdue finds himself trailing Gov. Brian Kemp by 11 points in the Republican gubernatorial primary contest. That’s according to a new Fox News Poll of Georgia Republican primary voters, released Tuesday. Kemp receives 50%, while Perdue, […] Read more »
Wisconsin: Poll finds inflation fears up, pandemic fears down; primary candidates not yet well known
With just more than five months until Wisconsin’s Aug. 9 primary election, a new Marquette Law School Poll survey of state voters finds that about half of both Republican and Democratic voters say they don’t know whom they support in the races for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate […] Read more »
The Democrats’ real problems aren’t the ones you’re hearing about
President Biden has lackluster poll numbers, and they seem stuck. Democrats can’t pass much legislation on Capitol Hill. There is wide pessimism within the party about the midterms. So a familiar blame game has begun: Message X, Person Y or Campaign Tactic Z is killing the party. The problem? Virtually […] Read more »
Red states are remaking the civil liberties landscape
From Florida, Georgia and Tennessee through Texas, South Dakota and Montana, Republican-controlled states are approving a torrent of culturally conservative hot-button legislation at a pace unmatched in recent times, and probably ever. States where the GOP controls both the governorship and state legislature are moving in unprecedented numbers to restrict […] Read more »
California: Festering problems plaguing the state are weighing down Newsom’s standing with voters, as concerns about Covid recede
The latest Berkeley IGS Poll finds California voters now hold a more critical view of the job Gavin Newsom is doing as governor than they did immediately prior to his successful defeat of last year’s recall election. According to the poll, 48% of the state’s registered voters approve of the […] Read more »