President Obama is expected to announce executive actions on Tuesday expanding background check requirements at gun shows and online. Most Republican presidential candidates are painting this move as an overreach of his authority, but Americans’ feelings about executive actions tend to depend mostly on how they feel about the underlying […] Read more »
How Obama’s Gun-Control Move Reflects Major Cultural Shift Among Voters
… With Hillary Clinton immediately embracing it, and the leading Republican presidential contenders all quickly condemning it, Obama’s proposed executive action to expand background checks for gun sales is likely to widen the cultural chasm between the parties that defines the 2016 race. CONT. Ronald Brownstein, National Journal Recent polls: […] Read more »
The Eight Causes of Trumpism
… Both Trump and a broader phenomenon—call it Trumpism—are stronger and deeper than most veteran political analysts realized or were willing to acknowledge. They are neither immediate nor transitory phenomena. The disdain for the status quo, for authority figures of both parties and other institutions, and the anger at inexorable […] Read more »
Dissatisfaction, anger dominate year-end reviews of Washington
Heading into the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency, the American public is divided on whether he’s brought positive or negative change to the United States, and expresses broad dissatisfaction with government and anger about the way things are going in the nation generally. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »
CNN/ORC poll: More Americans say terrorists are winning than ever before
Americans are more likely to say that terrorists are winning the war against the United States than they have been at any point since the September 11 attacks, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. CONT. Theodore Schleifer & Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »
Clinton Most Admired Woman for Record 20th Time
Americans again name Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama the woman and man living anywhere in the world they admire most. Both win by wide margins over the next-closest finishers, Malala Yousafzai for women and Pope Francis and Donald Trump for men. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »