Two polls, two substantial Biden leads. Joe Biden has been leading by about seven points nationally for as long as this page has been on the internet, and there’s no indication that’s changing. A new Times/Siena poll Sunday found him ahead by eight points, and a new ABC News/Washington Post […] Read more »
Why Joe Biden’s lead is different than Hillary Clinton’s
New polls released Sunday confirm it: Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a clear advantage over President Donald Trump heading into the first debate on Tuesday. The New York Times/Siena College poll gives Biden a 49% to 41% lead over Trump among likely voters. The ABC News/Washington Post poll puts […] Read more »
Why Biden would likely have a Democratic Senate if he wins
The pending Senate battle over the next Supreme Court nominee shows us how important winning Congress’ upper chamber is this fall. A president who doesn’t have the Senate backing him cannot fully use the power of the presidency to influence the government’s direction. 2020 could be shaping up to be […] Read more »
How Biden continues to eat into Trump’s base
President Donald Trump heads into the debate trailing former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump is the first incumbent to be losing in the polls at this point since George H.W. Bush in 1992. Trump’s obvious goal for the debate is to try and win back some of the White voters […] Read more »
Legacy & Implications
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg left a hole in the tapestry of American jurisprudence and set in motion a political battle with lasting implications. Then, Patrick Murray, Director of the Polling Institute at Monmouth University, joins the discussion. We’re […] Read more »
The part of Fox News that Trump likes least is the part that’s most obviously objective
The first of President Trump’s 46 tweets Friday (as of writing) was one of the few that wasn’t a retweet of some figure from the extended conservative media universe making exaggerated claims about him or his perceived opponents. It was, instead, Trump making false claims about a stanchion of that […] Read more »