Standing before political and business leaders in New York last fall, Alexander Nix promised a revolution. … Mr. Nix’s little-known firm, Cambridge Analytica, claimed to have developed something unique: “psychographic” profiles that could predict the personality and hidden political leanings of every American adult. “Of the two candidates left in the […] Read more »
How Question Wording Affects (Or Doesn’t Affect) Support For Trump’s Travel Ban
President Trump’s executive order banning travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. has been perhaps the most controversial act of his presidency so far. The order set off a firestorm of protests and numerous court challenges. But it’s still difficult to measure how many Americans support the […] Read more »
The net effect of Trump’s speech will probably be a slight, fleeting uptick in his approval
… The question for Trump is less about the effect of one night’s speech and more about whether he can turn around his exceptionally low approval ratings. In Gallup’s most recent weekly average, Trump was at 42 percent — up slightly from recent weeks but still well below other new […] Read more »
The Highs and Lows of President Trump’s Job Approval
President Trump heads into his first address to Congress with the lowest job approval of any chief executive since Dwight D. Eisenhower, when Gallup began tracking the initial months of a president’s term. Mr. Trump’s record-low approval rating is because of high disapproval among Democrats and independents, but masks the […] Read more »
Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust The Inside Scoop
So … this is a little awkward. Here we are, in the midst of a series of articles about the media’s shortcomings in covering the 2016 general election. And President Trump, the winner of that election, has to go out and call the media the “enemy of the American people.” […] Read more »
Trump’s Approval Ratings Have Finally Stabilized, but What Does That Mean?
As has been reported extensively, Donald Trump’s job approval ratings started low relative to other new presidents and have declined ever since. Yet, as Patrick Egan has noted, those ratings seem to have stabilized over the past few weeks, with an average approval rating around 43 percent. Has Trump found […] Read more »