When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered his initial speech as a declared presidential candidate in Iowa last week, his first 15 minutes succinctly previewed how Republicans might defeat President Joe Biden next year. The next 30 minutes of DeSantis’ speech then demonstrated how Biden might survive despite all the doubts […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: 9 in 10 voters worried about inflation, America’s future
Overwhelming majorities of voters are concerned about the specific issue of inflation as well as the broader issue of the future of America, according to a new Fox News survey. Concern with inflation has been consistently high since peaking at 93% in July 2022. Now, nearly a year later, 90% […] Read more »
Biden-McCarthy compromise is in line with public opinion
Amazingly enough, President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy managed to broker a debt-ceiling deal and say respectful things about each other over the long weekend. Heavy criticism of the deal from both left and right kept us moored in reality, though, and as of this writing, the bill has […] Read more »
The data behind the Supreme Court’s shift to the right
The Supreme Court has long painted itself as a safe space, in a country dominated by political partisanship, where the law and the Constitution rule. But data from recent years puts some weight behind the critics who argue that the highest court in the land has taken on a more […] Read more »
Abortion Remains Key Issue for Voters, with Democrats Holding a Sizeable Edge over Republicans
Nine months ahead of the first presidential primary of the 2024 election season, many voters, especially women, say candidates’ views on abortion will again be a key issue, and Democrats hold a strong edge over Republicans on the issue, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. Three in 10 registered […] Read more »
Why the GOP Wants to Rob Gen Z to Pay the Boomers
The budget cuts that House Republicans are demanding in their high-stakes debt-ceiling standoff with President Joe Biden sharpen the overlapping generational and racial conflict moving to the center of U.S. politics. The House GOP’s blueprint would focus its spending cuts on the relatively small slice of the federal budget that […] Read more »