Higher-income voters are narrowly supporting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in another sign of how the 2016 presidential race is fracturing traditional voting blocs. In a two-way contest, Clinton beats Republican Donald Trump 46 percent to 42 percent among likely voters with annual household incomes of $100,000 or more, the […] Read more »
2016: Last call for working class whites?
The biggest story of the 2016 election is undoubtedly the rise of Donald Trump, and behind the Republican nominee is a group in its last throes as the biggest force in politics: The white working class. A new survey from CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation delves deeply into this […] Read more »
The Bloomberg Politics Poll Decoder
As Election Day nears, we’re being deluged with public opinion polls attempting to measure whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is on track to win the White House. It’s hard to know what to make of the numbers because the polls often tell very different stories. These discrepancies start to […] Read more »
What We Are Hearing About Clinton and Trump
This election season, most Americans are paying attention to the presidential candidates on a daily basis. That’s good news, but what Americans report reading and hearing about Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton has to make us wonder about the value of the hyper-prolonged, exhausting modern-day campaign process. With a […] Read more »
The anatomy of a white, working-class Trump voter
White, Working Class and Worried is a CNN partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation — an extensive survey of white, working-class Americans and voters, who form a backbone of the support for Donald Trump. CONT. Joyce Tseng & Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »
White Voters Keep Trump’s Hopes Alive in Must-Win Florida
Donald J. Trump has almost no plausible path to the White House unless he wins Florida, a rapidly changing state where Hispanic voters could deal a decisive blow to his chances. But a new poll, by The New York Times Upshot/Siena College, suggests that Mr. Trump is keeping his hopes […] Read more »