It’s not just Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton who are so different from each other. On the eve of back-to-back political conventions, Republicans and Democrats across the land see their neighbors, their country and their world through very different eyes, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll. Muslims, Mexicans, guns, gays […] Read more »
Creating a down-ballot Democratic wave
On Friday, Democracy Corps released our most recent national survey showing Hillary Clinton with an 11-point lead over Donald Trump (48 to 37 percent, with 8 percent for the Libertarian). Importantly, it showed the Democrats with an 8-point lead in the named congressional ballot (49 to 41 percent), something we […] Read more »
Majority of Americans continue to support same-sex marriage
As they have for more than three years, a majority of Americans say it should be legal for same-sex couples to marry. A year after the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to same-sex marriage, 58 percent of Americans support the legalization of same-sex marriage, while […] Read more »
Same-Sex Marriages Up One Year After Supreme Court Verdict
The proportion of same-sex cohabiting couples who are married has increased from 38% to 49% in the year since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
LGBT Voters’ 2016 Political Clout, State by State
This week Donald Trump argued that he was a better candidate for the nation’s gay and lesbian community than his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The words were remarkable in that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee seemed to be making a play for the LGBT vote, traditionally seen as a core […] Read more »
What the gay marriage movement tells us about the prospects for gun reform
… In contrast to the advancement of gay and transgender rights, which has been among the standout successes of the progressive agenda during the Obama years, the failure to pass gun-safety measures that could prevent more mass shootings has been among the greatest disappointments. But it wasn’t all that long […] Read more »