Sen. Kamala Harris has been called the “female Barack Obama.” Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke has been dubbed “Barack Obama, but white.” Sen. Cory Booker sings from the Obama hymnal of hope and optimism. Joe Biden, as Obama’s vice president, is closer to the former president than anyone running for the […] Read more »
Presidential Approval Up After Last Three States of Union
As President Donald Trump prepares to give the State of the Union address, he is hoping to reap some political benefit from it, as has occurred after the past three such addresses. Trump, in 2018, and Barack Obama, in 2015 and 2016, saw modest two- to four-percentage-point increases in approval […] Read more »
Trump Job Approval Sets New Record for Polarization
The average 79-percentage-point difference between Republicans’ and Democrats’ job approval ratings of President Donald Trump during his second year in office is the largest Gallup has measured in any presidential year to date. The prior record of 77 points was recorded in President Barack Obama’s eighth year in office. CONT. […] Read more »
Republicans In Congress Have Been Very Loyal To Trump. Will It Last?
… Over the first two years of Trump’s presidency, the average GOP member overwhelmingly sided with Trump — 93 percent of the time in the House and 91 percent of the time in the Senate, according to FiveThirtyEight’s Trump score metric, which tracks how often each member of Congress votes […] Read more »
Michelle Obama Ends Hillary Clinton’s Run as Most Admired
For the first time in 17 years, a woman other than Hillary Clinton has been named by Americans as the woman they admire most. Former first lady Michelle Obama, who finished second to Clinton three times and is currently touring to promote her recently released autobiography, won by a significant […] Read more »
The John Birch Society is still influencing American politics, 60 years after its founding
Some of the far-right group’s staff in 1976. AP Photo/J. Walter Green Christopher Towler, California State University, Sacramento The retired candy entrepreneur Robert Welch founded the John Birch Society 60 years ago to push back against what he perceived as a growing American welfare state modeled on communism and the […] Read more »