Midterm elections are always a little tricky for pollsters. What do polls about national issues and inclinations mean when control the House and Senate will be decided district by district and state by state? But this time around, there’s even less data and fewer polls to analyze. NPR’s Domenico Montanaro […] Read more »
Trump and the media get an almost equal share of the blame for politically motivated violence in new Post-ABC poll
Both President Trump and the news media are seen by nearly half of American voters as encouraging politically motivated violence, with partisans taking predictable sides in the wake of recent attacks, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. The poll finds that 49 percent of registered voters say Trump, in […] Read more »
Half say Trump encourages violence by way he speaks
Half of registered voters think that President Donald Trump is encouraging politically motivated violence in the United States in the way he speaks, but essentially as many say the media are doing the same in the way they report the news, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll. … On […] Read more »
Trump’s Attacks on the News Media Are Working
… By one measure, a CBS News poll over the summer, 91 percent of “strong Trump supporters” trust him to provide accurate information; 11 percent said the same about the news media. Mr. Trump was open about the tactic in a 2016 conversation with Lesley Stahl of CBS News, which she […] Read more »
How disinformation, voter suppression and partisanship destroy democracy
… As Walter Lippmann first argued in “Public Opinion” (1922), people in mass societies interpret the modern world through the “pictures” and “fictions” in their heads. The “pseudo-environments” they inhabit are made comprehensible only through the “stereotypes” that enable them to make sense of an otherwise chaotic reality, and for […] Read more »
Making Sense of Midterm-Mania
Is 2018 really “The Year of Women”? Does early voting turnout matter? Is this the most important election of our lifetime? Bob speaks with Clare Malone, senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight, who breaks down the numbers, myths, and exaggerations making their way into the national conversation ahead of the midterms. […] Read more »