… Granville County has long been a Democratic stronghold, but it was one of six rural counties in North Carolina that flipped from voting twice for Barack Obama to voting for Trump last year. Local Democrats blame the flip on low turnout, especially among African Americans who make up a […] Read more »
New poll: Obama-Trump voters are starting to sour on Trump
Just over seven months into his presidency, Donald Trump continues to face important challenges. These include the investigation into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia, a struggling legislative agenda and Trump’s own controversial statements, especially regarding the violence perpetrated by white supremacists in Charlottesville. Meanwhile, Trump’s approval numbers have […] Read more »
The Obama-Trump Voters Are Real. Here’s What They Think.
The story of the 2016 presidential election is simple. Donald J. Trump made huge gains among white voters without a college degree. His gains were large enough to cancel out considerable losses among well-educated white voters and a decade of demographic shifts. There are questions and details still up for […] Read more »
There’s no such thing as a Trump Democrat
… It has become an article of faith that an unusually large number of people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 or 2012 switched sides and voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. It follows that Democrats, to win in the future, need to get these lost partisans to […] Read more »
Gallup: No president has been less popular six months into his tenure than Donald Trump
Thursday marked President Trump’s sixth month in office. According to Gallup, no elected president has emerged from that period as unpopular as Trump in the history of polling. CONT. Philip Bump, Washington Post Read more »
Finally, a Poll Trump Will Like: Clinton Is Even More Unpopular
For a president with historically low poll numbers, Donald Trump can at least find solace in this: Hillary Clinton is doing worse. Trump’s 2016 Democratic rival is viewed favorably by just 39 percent of Americans in the latest Bloomberg National Poll, two points lower than the president. … In contrast […] Read more »