… Trump on Thursday promoted a new McLaughlin poll on impeachment. The headline for McLaughlin and Trump was that Americans saw impeachment as an effort to prevent Trump’s reelection, believed Trump shouldn’t cooperate with it and said Democrats are wasting everyone’s time. How did McLaughlin arrive at these results? CONT. […] Read more »
Canada’s pollsters nailed the outcome of the federal election – mostly
Politicians and pundits love nothing more than to say the polls can’t be trusted. After all, the numbers frequently get in the way of talking points or convenient narratives. But in the 2019 federal election, the polls did pretty well — and where they didn’t, they offer clues about what […] Read more »
How Impeachment Is Polling
… A series of new polls out this week shows there are plenty of signs that voters have been following the impeachment inquiry and that the latest developments have begun to shape their opinions. Here’s some of what we learned this week about how the country is viewing impeachment. CONT. […] Read more »
Poll: Biden has a big lead. Another poll: Warren does. What’s going on?
On Wednesday morning, CNN published a new poll evaluating the state of the Democratic presidential primary fight. Former vice president Joe Biden had surged back into a healthy lead, enjoying a double-digit margin over Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who are jockeying for second. That was important […] Read more »
Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren? New Polls Differ on Who’s Leading 2020 Race
Just over three months before Iowans caucus for Democratic presidential candidates, four polls out this week present a muddled picture of a primary race that is unfolding in varying, and sometimes conflicting, ways nationally and in early-voting states. A pair of new national polls present starkly different results. A CNN […] Read more »
Is the Blob ignoring the American public?
… As President Trump has made Syria worse, I have heard kindred arguments from both ends of the political spectrum. Sure, the narrative runs, Trump is withdrawing from Syria in the messiest way possible, but isn’t this what the American people wanted? Don’t they want the forever wars in the […] Read more »