An increasingly popular tactic challenges conventional wisdom on the spread of electoral disinformation: the creation of partisan outlets masquerading as local news organizations. An investigation by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School has discovered at least 450 websites in a network of local and business news […] Read more »
Tracing The Roots Of A Partisan Impeachment
President Trump was impeached Wednesday night on two articles of impeachment — one for abuse of power, the other for obstruction of Congress. And they both got more votes than either of the other two impeachments in American history. But it was also partisan — zero Republicans broke ranks, and […] Read more »
Emotional Partisanship Driving Views of Healthcare
One of the defining characteristics of our age is emotional partisanship, when Americans’ political and ideological self-identities are so emotionally powerful that they become the lens through which Americans view many nonpolitical aspects of their lives. … Several articles analyzing public opinion on healthcare published by my Gallup colleagues in […] Read more »
What Unites Republicans May Be Changing. Same With Democrats.
In a book released on the eve of the 2016 election called “Asymmetric Politics,” political scientists Matthew Grossmann and David Hopkins argued that America’s political parties don’t just have different ideologies, but are really different kinds of organizations. “Republicans are organized around broad symbolic principles, whereas Democrats are a coalition […] Read more »
In a Politically Polarized Era, Sharp Divides in Both Partisan Coalitions
Partisanship continues to be the dividing line in the American public’s political attitudes, far surpassing differences by age, race and ethnicity, gender, educational attainment, religious affiliation or other factors. Yet there are substantial divisions within both parties on fundamental political values, views of current issues and the severity of the […] Read more »
How the Internet Came to Loathe Pete Buttigieg
… The Buttigieg backlash, just like this spring’s first flush of Buttigieg mania, has a dorm-room atmosphere about it; it is most intense within his own cohort of young, mostly white, college-educated liberals, who are torn between a mounting discomfort with their own privilege and an instinctive comfort with their […] Read more »