Americans by significant margins now view the Republican Party as better than the Democratic Party at protecting the nation from international threats (54% to 39%, respectively) and at ensuring the nation remains prosperous (50% to 41%). The 15-percentage-point GOP advantage on security matters is its largest since 2015, while its […] Read more »
Democrats Lost the Most in Midwestern ‘Factory Towns,’ Report Says
The share of the Democratic presidential vote in the Midwest declined most precipitously between 2012 and 2020 in counties that experienced the steepest losses in manufacturing and union jobs and saw declines in health care, according to a new report to be released this month. The party’s worsening performance in […] Read more »
Support for Secession Linked to Conspiracy Belief
Key Points• Belief in conspiracy theories is most consistently correlated with Biden and Trump voters who favor secession.• The majority of citizens who voted for Joe Biden or Donald Trump in the last election, when combined, believe in at least one of the conspiracy theories (43% of Biden voters and […] Read more »
Party Favorable Ratings Near Parity; Both Viewed Negatively
Americans’ opinions of the Democratic Party have fallen slightly from an elevated level this year, and more again view the party unfavorably (55%) than favorably (43%). Meanwhile, 56% have an unfavorable view of the Republican and 40% a favorable one. CONTINUED Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a […] Read more »
Why the Senate doesn’t work anymore
Anger is peaking among a wide range of Democrats toward Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema over their resistance to President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, but the Democrats’ struggle to pass Biden’s sweeping plan is rooted in more than the personal idiosyncrasies and electoral calculations of two individual senators. It […] Read more »
Trauma and Trump make Asian American voters a more cohesive bloc, new poll reveals
In 2020, amid a year of violence and fear, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were hypervisible – and that changed the way they look at themselves and politics, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. As the global pandemic took hold, then-President Donald Trump started using xenophobic terms to blame […] Read more »