Many Republican controlled states have implemented laws that will limit voting access to certain groups. We look at the polls surrounding this contentious topic and discuss what accounts for the widening schism between Democrats and Republicans. Then, the Census population numbers were released last week. Which states have gained or […] Read more »
It’s All About Confidence
There is little doubt that this country is both narrowly and badly divided. To the extent that there is any debate about the severity, it is whether today is worse than 1968, when both the civil rights struggle and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam divided the country. A lack […] Read more »
Assessing AP VoteCast 2020
… AP VoteCast 2020 was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for Fox News, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Univision News, USA Today Network, The Wall Street Journal, and The Associated Press. The 2020 election was the first time VoteCast was used for a presidential race. Amid a pandemic, record turnout, […] Read more »
2020 Polling Retrospective
Since 2018 Data for Progress has helped prove the case for progressive policy with its best-in-class polling, while being on the forefront of innovative survey techniques. In the spirit of innovation, this report is the first of a series of analyses to rigorously assess polling’s successes and failures over the […] Read more »
Is the era of government back?
Like most Americans, and nearly everyone on my side of the partisan divide, I’m thrilled with the agenda President Biden has laid out and pleased with the high levels of public support it has generated. … Some commentators suggest these findings herald a fundamentally new and more expansive view of […] Read more »
Can Democrats fix their big 2020 polling errors? A lot depends on it.
Throughout Donald Trump’s presidency, a persistent media story-line held that Democrats were out of touch with the true sentiments of a certain type of economically populist white voter, particularly those concentrated in the industrial Midwest. Coming after Trump shattered the “blue wall” states in 2016, his grip on his non-college […] Read more »