President Joe Biden completes his first hundred days in office with a country that is more optimistic about the coming year, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. Nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) are optimistic about the direction of the country in the poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in […] Read more »
The GOP scared Latinos from the census. Now that may cost the party red seats.
Everyone knew Hispanics were at risk of being undercounted in the 2020 Census, because the Trump administration gave every indication of wanting them undercounted. The administration’s hard-line anti-immigrant policies, after all, extended to the census. As commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross attempted to get a citizenship question added to the survey, […] Read more »
Many Republican voters agree with Biden — ‘trickle-down economics’ has failed
A majority of Americans support measures favored by President Joe Biden to substantially redistribute U.S. wealth, according to an Ipsos poll for Reuters released on Thursday, including tax hikes on the wealthy and a higher minimum wage. The national opinion poll also found that Republican voters were divided over the […] Read more »
Can Democrats Avoid a Wipeout in 2022?
The good news for Democrats who watched Joe Biden unveil a historically ambitious agenda last night is that newly elected presidents have almost always passed some version of their core economic plan—particularly when their party controls both congressional chambers, as Biden’s does now. The bad news: Voters have almost always […] Read more »
Politics—not psychology—drives politics
… It is true that people are more prone to reasoning in a way that favors their group when their political identity is activated. Yet, the fundamental question is often why some issues get politicized in the first place. To answer that question, one must go deep into understanding political […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Americans want bipartisanship, but most don’t think it will happen
Americans of all political stripes agree that attempts at bipartisanship in Washington are a good thing, but expectations that such efforts are likely to be successful on upcoming major legislation are low in a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. All told, 87% say that attempts at bipartisanship are a […] Read more »