A new national Fox News poll finds former vice president Joe Biden leading the Democratic primary 35% to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 17% and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 9%. The poll is the latest to show Biden rising from the high 20s into the mid-to-upper 30s and Warren climbing from […] Read more »
Polling Responses Provide Vivid Illustration of Divergent Opinions on Trump
In this era of political tribalism, with so many people living in partisan and ideological silos—living, working, and socializing with like-minded people—it tends to not just reinforce thinking, but also to disconnect us from others with different backgrounds and points of view. This past week’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll […] Read more »
Trump’s Staunch GOP Supporters Have Roots in the Tea Party
A decade after the tea party emerged as a political force, its former supporters are some of Donald Trump’s most stalwart Republican supporters, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center panel surveys from 2014 through 2018. CONT. Pew Read more »
Did the Left Misread the 2020 Democratic Primary?
… It’s too early to declare this the year of anything, whether progressive change or centrist Bidenmania. But Biden’s commanding lead has left the party’s resurgent left with a question: What to do if it never stops being Biden’s moment. Despite circulation of Biden’s 1970s opposition to school busing and […] Read more »
Why Is Hollywood So Liberal?
The worlds of movies, television, and theater are overwhelmingly populated by political liberals. This frustrates some conservatives, who complain that the entertainment we consume is biased or propagandistic. But why might successful writers, directors, and actors tend to lean leftward? New research offers an intriguing clue. CONT. Tom Jacobs, Pacific […] Read more »
Twitter Isn’t Real Life (if You’re a Democrat)
On Twitter during late 2015 and early 2016, Donald Trump’s front-runner status was evident, even if it hadn’t yet fully sunk in with the tribunes of conventional wisdom. Trump’s following far outstripped his rivals. His tweets drove news cycles, and channeled the resentments of a furious base. … Yet when […] Read more »