From our first appearance on earth, human beings have searched for meaning. We naturally incline toward interpreting events and ascribing significance to them. … There are both the intrinsic and extrinsic pressures to find meaning in the events of the day and particularly in election results. However, such assessments often […] Read more »
Americans Divided on Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the Supreme Court
A week after Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, the public is split in its early views of the nomination. Overall, 41% think the Senate should confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, while about as many (36%) say they should […] Read more »
One Country, Two Radically Different Narratives
The United States is one country, but Americans are living in two separate worlds. In one version of America, the country is headed in the totally wrong direction. Billionaires control politics. Foreign governments meddle in elections. And not enough people vote to demand a change. In the other America, things […] Read more »
The increasing partisan divide between Red and Blue America, and its implications for the elections in 2018 and 2020
Ronald Brownstein is a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Senior Political Analyst at CNN, and a shrewd observer of American politics. In this Conversation, Brownstein analyzes factors that fuel our increasingly polarized politics. He explains why these partisan divisions are likely to increase as we head toward elections in 2018 […] Read more »
The Least Analytical 2016 Voters: Democrats Who Supported Trump
… A study that examined voters’ styles of thinking finds that, as expected, Democrats are somewhat more analytically oriented than Republicans. This supports the idea that conservatism is something of a default setting, and rejecting it requires intellectual reasoning. However, the biggest difference in cognitive approaches was between two subsets […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Jury’s out on Kavanaugh
Voters split on President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. A new Fox News poll finds that 38 percent of voters would confirm him, 32 percent oppose him, and 30 percent are unsure. … In addition, by a 50-42 percent margin, voters say the Senate should vote on Kavanaugh’s […] Read more »