White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Trump will not address the ongoing investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia because no Americans care about the issue. At Monday’s White House briefing, Sanders said: “We spend more time on that than we do any other topic […] Read more »
Trump’s First State of the Union: How Will it Affect the State of Play?
Tomorrow night, President Trump will deliver his first State of the Union (SOTU) address to Congress and the American people. With Trump’s approval rating currently clocking in at 36% approve/59% disapprove according to Gallup, one might naturally assume that the SOTU offers the perfect opportunity for Trump to hit the […] Read more »
Generic ballot measures, party candidate recruitment and the coming 2018 wave
With a series of survey results showing that Democrats have an enormous lead over Republicans in the 2018 election for control of the House of Representatives, it’s worth asking what these generic ballot items really mean, and how well they predict what’s actually going to happen in November. CONT. Dan […] Read more »
Poll Hub: The gig economy and the future of work in the United States
The American workforce is undergoing a profound change. According to the latest NPR/Marist Poll of the future of work, one in five American workers are contract workers. Who are they, and what kind of an impact do they have on the labor force? Poll Hub has the answers. CONT. Marist […] Read more »
ESPN Exploring Sale of FiveThirtyEight
By the time mid-term election season really heats up, Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight will in all likelihood have a different platform than ESPN. The Big Lead has learned that ESPN is exploring its options to sell or otherwise divest from the brand. CONT. Ryan Glasspiegel, The Big Lead Read more »
What to Make of All These New and Often Conflicting Generic Ballot Polls?
If you are confused about what to make of the latest slew of polling data about control of Congress in 2018, you are not alone. On the so-called generic ballot question which asks voters if they’d support a Democrat or Republican for Congress in 2018, Democrats have either lost ground […] Read more »