With President Trump’s poll numbers sliding in traditional battlegrounds as well as conservative-leaning states, and money pouring into Democratic campaigns, Joseph R. Biden Jr. is facing rising pressure to expand his ambitions, compete aggressively in more states and press his party’s advantage down the ballot. In a series of phone […] Read more »
Senate Democratic candidates are raising tons of money. That matters.
… Historically, candidates who raise more money increase their chances of winning significantly. This means the more money Democrats are raking in, the better chance they have at winning a Senate majority. Take a look at more than 100 Senate races for which there was polling from January to June […] Read more »
Conservatives Didn’t Get The SCOTUS They Wanted This Term
FiveThirtyEight legal reporter Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux joins Galen Druke to look back at a U.S. Supreme Court term full of consequential cases. They also unpack one the final rulings of the term, which permits prosecutors to subpoena the president’s financial records. FiveThirtyEight Read more »
Poll Hub: In Context
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, CNN’s Harry Enten sheds light on the 2020 presidential election. Enten analyzes where Joe Biden’s poll numbers stand at this time and compares them to those of previous presidential candidates. It’s always a good time when Enten visits the podcast. Plus, the Supreme […] Read more »
Hong Kong Police Raid Pollster on Eve of Pro-Democracy Camp Primary
The Hong Kong police raided the office of an independent polling institute on Friday, on the eve of a primary vote for the city’s pro-democracy camp, raising concerns of official interference in a campaign for the local legislature. … The polling organization, the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, planned […] Read more »
4 poll numbers that could spell doom for Trump and the GOP
We’re less than four months from the 2020 election, and President Trump is in a bad way. A slew of national polls show him losing to Joe Biden by an average of around nine points; swing-state polls almost universally show Biden leading; and worry is growing on the right not […] Read more »