Over the four years during which he has dominated American political life, nearly three of them as president, Donald Trump has set a match again and again to chaos-inducing issues like racial hostility, authoritarianism and white identity politics. … In the past, chaos-seekers were on outer edges of politics, unable […] Read more »
Pundits claim ‘Trump fatigue’
Frank Luntz says “statistically more people get their information on Donald Trump from Donald Trump’s tweets” than any media outlet, & this helps POTUS but he also creates PR problems. Media Buzz, Fox News Read more »
4 reasons why social media election data can misread public opinion
Online discussion doesn’t always accurately reflect the real political landscape. Russ Vance/Shutterstock.com Joseph Cabosky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill I often encounter myths and misunderstandings about political data, whether it’s in the classes I teach or broader news coverage. A common one is that polls these days are […] Read more »
How can we be smarter about horse race polls?
Much of what is wrong with political polling occurs at the nexus between the firms that produce the surveys and the media industry. It is worth bearing that in mind as we approach the October 2019 federal election campaign, in which opinion polling will be more central than ever to […] Read more »
Nevada: A discussion with Jon Ralston about the lack of presidential primary polls in Nevada
Nevada falls early on the 2020 presidential primary and caucus calendar. So, why are there so few polls about the Democratic contest? In this week’s episode of our podcast, Poll Hub, we speak with Jon Ralston, Editor of the Nevada Independent. Ralston shares the significance of Nevada in the electoral […] Read more »
How anti-Semitic beliefs have quietly taken hold among some evangelical Christians
As she cleans up the counter where the teenagers at her church’s Vacation Bible School ate their cookies and yogurt, Luba Yanko complains about the state of the country. President Trump is trying to act on Christian values, she believes. But from what she reads online, it seems that a […] Read more »