Sixty-three percent of Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement and a record 69% — the most by far in 32 years of polling — say Black people and other minorities are denied equal treatment in the criminal justice system, two of several signs of deep changes in public attitudes […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: 63% see country’s Founders as heroes, 15% say villains
President Trump said in his July 4 Mount Rushmore speech that American children are being taught that the people who built our country were not heroes, but were instead villains. The latest Fox News survey asks voters how they view the country’s Founders. Sixty-three percent see them as heroes, while […] Read more »
How White Democrats Feel About Policies Aimed At Reducing Racial Inequalities
In recent weeks, public opinion on Black Lives Matter has swung significantly in favor of the movement, and people are taking the view that Black people face discrimination in America. But is there public support for policies that could address that discrimination? In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, […] Read more »
Racist policing is making Black and White Americans question police authority
The history of policing in America is an indisputably violent one. Many American police departments have their origins in White supremacist violence—for example, hunting down Black Americans who had freed themselves from enslavement and returning them to their captors. Yet the specific form of racially targeted and increasingly militarized policing […] Read more »
Trump Is Selling White Grievance. The Suburbs Aren’t Buying It.
… From North Carolina to Pennsylvania to Arizona, interviews this week with more than two dozen suburban voters in critical swing states revealed abhorrence for Mr. Trump’s growing efforts to fuel white resentment with inflammatory rhetoric on race and cultural heritage. The discomfort was palpable even among voters who also […] Read more »
Latino Decisions Announces Release of New Survey Results in Six Battleground States
In partnership with Voter Participation Center and Voto Latino, Latino Decisions released their latest research on Latinos in 6-battleground states where Latinos will make a difference in the upcoming Presidential election between Vice President Biden and President Trump; Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Arizona, and Florida. This is the first […] Read more »