The troubling political implications of Americans’ sense of superiority

I’m right and you’re wrong. Such is, apparently, the view that Americans take regarding not only each other’s political orientations, but all sorts of other personal and existential questions, too. Americans think their fellow countrymen are lazy workers, bad parents and unhappy spouses and are generally unequipped to govern or […] Read more »

Why 2016 could be shattering for Republicans

Election Day 2016 will produce a shattering crash larger than anything the pundits anticipate because the revolutionary economic and social changes occurring in the United States have now pushed both the burgeoning new majority and the conservative Republicans’ counterrevolution beyond their tipping points. CONT. Stanley B. Greenberg (Greenberg Quinlan Rosner […] Read more »

How Policies Discussed in the GOP Debate Fare With the Public

The third Republican debate on Wednesday night may be best remembered for the contentious relationship between the presidential candidates and the CNBC moderators, but the debate did touch on a number of hot-button political issues. Gallup looks at how some of the policy proposals or positions on these issues from […] Read more »

Which Political Party Is In the Mainstream?

Primary battles take place on the edges of the electorate, but general elections are decided in the middle – in the political mainstream. So on a list of important issues which party is in the mainstream? It depends on your point of view, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street […] Read more »

Americans Want Supreme Court to Turn Off Political Spending Spigot

Americans may be sharply divided on other issues, but they are united in their view of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that unleashed a torrent of political spending: They hate it. In a new Bloomberg Politics national poll, 78 percent of those responding said the Citizens United ruling should be […] Read more »