As 2019 closes out, it may be worth looking to one of the states that is expected to play an outsized role in next year’s presidential election: Wisconsin. The Badger State was truly decisive in 2016: While it’s easy to lump it in with Michigan and Pennsylvania as the three […] Read more »
The House Has Impeached President Trump. Here’s What We Learned.
The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump on Wednesday, making him just the third president ever to be impeached. … At the moment, impeachment appears likely to end up serving mostly as a stern condemnation of Trump’s actions by House Democrats. Still, the impeachment of a president is […] Read more »
Where Impeachment Crosses Party Lines, but Fixates on Trump
Treacy Broadhead, a registered Republican, has voted in recent years for all of her party’s candidates for office, save one: Donald J. Trump. “This particular president, I don’t agree with at all,’’ she said on Wednesday as the House of Representatives moved toward a historic impeachment vote. “I think the […] Read more »
Emotional Partisanship Driving Views of Healthcare
One of the defining characteristics of our age is emotional partisanship, when Americans’ political and ideological self-identities are so emotionally powerful that they become the lens through which Americans view many nonpolitical aspects of their lives. … Several articles analyzing public opinion on healthcare published by my Gallup colleagues in […] Read more »
Democrats Never Gave Bill Clinton a Free Pass
As the House prepares to vote on impeaching President Trump, there is no doubt that the Republican Party is behind him. Not a single House Republican voted to open an impeachment inquiry, and party officials have faithfully defended the president by denying facts and evidence that are beyond dispute and […] Read more »
Views of impeachment haven’t changed significantly since before the public hearings began
… Democrats hoped to see a Nixon-like surge in support for impeachment that would force Republicans to strongly consider impeaching Trump. That didn’t happen. Predictably, mind you: The variability in Nixon’s approval rating over his term suggested fluidity in views of his presidency that simply doesn’t exist in the Trump […] Read more »