President Obama’s standing in the eyes of the American people has recovered after a three-year slump — and that’s good news for Hillary Clinton. Obama’s job approval rating — the percentage of voters who say he’s doing a decent job — has reached an average of about 50% over the […] Read more »
Obama’s rising ratings
Presidential approval is the single most important piece of political data that is regularly collected. That’s not just because the presidency is the most important office in the land; it is also because no other indicator has proved to be so strongly correlated with real outcomes. CONT. Mark Mellman (Mellman […] Read more »
Americans overwhelmingly pessimistic about country’s path
More than two-thirds of Americans think the country is moving in the wrong direction, the highest in nearly four and a half years, a new McClatchy-Marist Poll found. CONT. William Douglas, McClatchy Read more »
Tales and takeaways from 28 years of covering the Wisconsin Primary
Welcome to the most important Wisconsin presidential primary since Kennedy beat Humphrey — and maybe the wildest ever. I’ve only covered the last eight. This is one is in a league of its own, but there are threads that connect it to the past. CONT. Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel Read more »
Campaign Exposes Fissures Over Issues, Values and How Life Has Changed in the U.S.
The 2016 presidential campaign has exposed deep disagreements between – and within – the two parties on a range of major policy issues. But these divisions go well beyond the issues and extend to fundamentally different visions of the way that life in the United States has changed. CONT. Pew Read more »
Donald Trump Is No Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan is the Frank Sinatra of Republican politics — all GOP politicians want to be him, and all GOP voters long for someone like him. (Just Google “second coming of Ronald Reagan.”) Enter Donald Trump, the latest Republican candidate to be compared to Reagan. Specifically, Trump supporters — in […] Read more »