Forty-five percent of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the mass media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” representing a continued recovery from the all-time low of 32% in 2016. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
Only 1 in 3 Young People Say They’re Certain to Vote in Midterms
A new PRRI/The Atlantic survey on civic engagement finds stark gaps between young and older Americans’ attitudes towards the utility of voting and other methods of civic engagement. The survey, the second in a series of reports assessing challenges to America’s democratic institutions and practices from PRRI and The Atlantic, […] Read more »
President Trump: ‘I believe in polls …’
President Trump, speaking in Erie, Pennsylvania, Oct. 10, 2018: TRUMP: “I believe in polls — only the ones that have us up, because they’re the only honest ones. Other than that they’re the fake news polls. Fake news! [boos] Just like their reporting is dishonest, their polls are dishonest.” pic.twitter.com/GGqqwbhSQi […] Read more »
What Nate Silver’s Worried About
On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke to Nate Silver, the election forecaster and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.com. Below is an edited excerpt from the show. In it, we discuss how the fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination might impact November’s election, the ups […] Read more »
Here’s how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!)
Surveys about “media trust” suffer from a definitional problem. “Do you trust the media?” is a meaningful question only if we know what “the media” is. Is it The New York Times and CNN? Fox News and Breitbart? Occupy Democrats and your uncle’s memes on Facebook? … All this is […] Read more »
Authoritarian Warning Survey: Ratings worsening on all six dimensions of democratic performance
Our expert survey results in August and September 2018 demonstrate increased threat levels compared to July, with ratings worsening on all six dimensions of democratic performance. This represents a reversal from the improving condition from June to July 2018. Experts rate a 16.5% chance of democratic breakdown in the U.S. […] Read more »