A new survey released today by PRRI finds almost one-third (31 percent) of Californians are in the workforce and yet are still struggling with poverty. The survey maps how this group struggles to cover basic housing and healthcare expenses, and how these individuals are more likely than workers who are […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Voters continue to prefer a pathway to citizenship
Voters continue to support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants currently living in the United States, although support has declined since February. And while majorities remain concerned about certain issues linked with illegal immigration, voters are becoming increasingly less worried about them, according to the latest Fox News Poll. […] Read more »
An Economic Upturn Begun Under Obama Is Now Trump’s to Tout
By nearly every standard measure, the American economy is doing well — and better than it was a year and a half ago, before Donald Trump was elected president. If only the debate over who deserves most of the credit were as easily judged. Americans’ perceptions of the economy’s prospects […] Read more »
The Blue-Collar Elephant in the Room
There’s an elephant in the Republican Party’s midterm room. Discussion about how to close the yawning generic ballot gap has focused on building the wall, selling the tax cuts, and emphasizing how President Trump has delivered on judicial nominees and deregulation. All of these issues are of particular import to […] Read more »
To crack Trump’s voter base, Democrats must focus on opportunity, not outrage
The first polling reactions to last week’s summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, should extinguish the last doubts, if any remained, that outrage over Trump’s behavior is likely to ever dislodge a meaningful portion of his core supporters. And that may encourage Democrats […] Read more »
How Trump’s trade war with China could go sideways on him
President Trump is a man who judges his successes by anecdote — both real and embellished. But his trade war is turning the anecdotes against him, and there are growing signs of trouble, even as the war officially began Friday. A poll conducted by The Washington Post and the Schar […] Read more »