Former President Donald Trump’s time in office is over. He’s been impeached twice and banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. But if his presidency was a roller coaster, his approval ratings were not. Trump left office with steadier approval ratings than his most recent predecessors, an analysis of NBC […] Read more »
Biden’s First 100 Days
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, President Joe Biden assumes office during the most tenuous of times. What are his policy priorities, and what are the chances, in our divided society, that he will be able to make headway during his first 100 days in office? We discuss public […] Read more »
Medill Survey Shows Most News Industry Workers Believe Polls are Overused and Unreliable
People working in U.S. media believe 2020 presidential election coverage was generally fair, but they also think polling was overplayed and unreliable, according to the first-ever Medill Media Industry Survey at Northwestern University. The survey of nearly 1,400 members of the U.S. news media was conducted by Associate Professor Stephanie […] Read more »
Latino pollsters Matt Barreto, Gary Segura split from Latino Decisions, form their own firm
Matt Barreto and Gary Segura, who tapped into Latino opinion as the population exploded and amplified it in the national political discourse, have parted ways with the polling firm Latino Decisions, which they helped create. The two Latino political scientists have started their own polling and consulting firm, LD Insights […] Read more »
To Save America, Look at America as It Is
… Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 by winning over the Tea Party, evangelical, and pro-life blocs, each of them determined to save America from Barack Obama, the first Black president. His enflaming racial resentment gave Trump an unassailable base in his party. But what the general elections reveal […] Read more »
How we know the drop in Trump’s approval rating in January reflected a real shift in public opinion
Donald Trump’s final job approval rating as president was 29% in a Pew Research Center poll released last week, the lowest of his presidency and a 9 percentage point drop since August, when 38% of U.S. adults approved. The decrease stood out because even some of the momentous events of […] Read more »