Culture of Corruption: 2018 Congressional Battleground Survey Results

A new battleground survey of Republican-held congressional districts shows Democrats are poised to make major gains this November, and that—with Republicans in Congress abandoning oversight of the Trump Administration—an anti-corruption theme has the potential to put Democratic candidates over the top by drawing support outside their traditional voting blocs. In […] Read more »

Just Half of Americans Believe Elections Are Fair and Open

Only about half of American adults believe elections are fair and open, and large majorities of Americans express skepticism about big money in politics and favor disclosure of donations. However, as the Senate considers President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the public offers mixed signals about […] Read more »

Record Partisan Divide on Views of the NRA

Republicans and Democrats are more divided in their views of the National Rifle Association than at any other time in Gallup’s 29-year trend. Eighty-eight percent of self-identified Republicans say they have very or mostly favorable views of the NRA, compared with 24% of Democrats, a 64-percentage-point gap in positive opinions […] Read more »

How Trump’s campaign may have offloaded spending on polling to a nonprofit

… America First Policies does a lot of polling, which CNBC stumbled across by following a link on the group’s website. … “America First Policies, which actively advocates for policies favored by Trump, denied that any of the documents, many of which are labeled ‘confidential,’ were intended to benefit the […] Read more »