A porn actress says she had sex with Donald Trump, only a few months after his wife gave birth to a son. A former Playboy model says she had an affair with him, too. And yet according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted March 7-14, both white mainline and […] Read more »
Suburban voters angry with Trump threaten GOP’s grip on House
… If Republicans want to hold onto the House, they will have to compete in communities that had little to do with the working-class regions that sent Trump to the White House in 2016: affluent, white-collar suburbs of Democratic cities. Many of the most competitive House seats this year are […] Read more »
How Trumpism has come to define the Republican Party
… The raw, undefined brand of populism that Trump rode into office is now hardening into a clearer set of policies in his second year, remaking the Republican Party and the country on issues ranging from trade and immigration to spending and entitlement programs. Even amid persistent unpopularity and the […] Read more »
1968: The Year That Rocked American Politics
This spring Dr. Lee Miringoff, Director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, is bringing four distinguished guests to the Marist College campus in Poughkeepsie, New York, for public conversations about 1968. We’ll talk about the war, civil rights, political upheaval and other issues that framed 1968 and how it […] Read more »
A ‘tea party of the left’? Liberal activists learn tough lessons in quest to purify Democratic Party
Liberal activists across the country are eager to harness the energy of the Trump resistance to push the Democratic Party to the left on core social and economic issues, particularly before the party chooses its next presidential nominee in 2020. But first they must figure out what went wrong Tuesday […] Read more »
Should Democrats Embrace the Center or Abandon It?
Over the next six months, Democratic voters will be asked again and again whether their party’s candidates should hew to the center or move to the left. How voters answer that question will help shape the strategic plans of the dozen or more Democrats jockeying to beat President Trump in […] Read more »