… When the House of Representatives voted in February 1974 to give the House Judiciary Committee subpoena power to investigate Nixon, it did not have the weight of public opinion behind it. According to a poll conducted by Gallup just days before the vote, only 38 percent of Americans were […] Read more »
Ipsos/Reuters Core Political: Impeachment Tracker
While the White House declared on Tuesday that it will not cooperate with the investigation on President Donald Trump’s impeachment, public opinion on the proceedings has remained consistent. Almost half (45%) of Americans believe the president should be impeached, compared to 39% who believe he should not. CONT. Ipsos Public […] Read more »
What Would Happen If American Voters All Got Together And Talked Politics?
There is a story that Stanford University political science professor Jim Fishkin likes to tell about George Gallup, the man who helped popularize public opinion polling in America. After the 1936 presidential election — which Gallup’s polling correctly called for Franklin D. Roosevelt — Gallup delivered a lecture at Princeton […] Read more »
Washington is trapped in a bad spy novel
It’s been a bad week in Washington and it’s not likely to get any better soon. In fact, it’s beginning to feel like the whole town and everyone in it is trapped in a really bad spy novel. … Polls are showing a tightening on the impeachment question raising flags […] Read more »
How Can Democrats Keep Themselves From Overreaching?
During my political lifetime, there have been four moments when the continuing viability of the Republican Party has been cast in doubt: the 1964 landslide defeat of Barry Goldwater, Watergate, the 1992 defeat of George H.W. Bush and the 2008 loss by John McCain. … There are some strategists — […] Read more »
Satisfaction With 2020 Candidates Is Running High
Three-quarters of U.S. Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say they are generally pleased with the selection of candidates running for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination. That is among the highest levels of satisfaction with candidates for the Democratic nomination Gallup has measured since it first asked the question in 1992, although […] Read more »