The battle over the nation’s energy future has become another front in the escalating cultural and political confrontation between what America has been and what it is becoming. The states that are most deeply integrated into the existing fossil-fuel economy, either as producers or as consumers, tend also to be […] Read more »
New polls confirm Democratic problems for November
The recently released March 7-13 Pew Research Center survey and the March 18-22 NBC News poll paint a grim picture for Democrats. Even worse for the president’s party, they offer little reason to believe that things will improve for Democrats before the November midterm elections. After watching his performance for […] Read more »
New York: Hochul Has Commanding Lead Over Williams & Suozzi with Dems; With Cuomo in Race, Hochul Leads 38-30%
In a three-way Democratic gubernatorial primary, Governor Kathy Hochul has a commanding 40-point lead over both New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Rep. Tom Suozzi among registered New York Democrats. If former Governor Andrew Cuomo runs in the primary, Hochul has the support of 38% of Democrats, compared […] Read more »
Getting Worse for Biden, He Continues to Fail
This national poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted between March 17 to 22, shows that it’s not getting better for President Biden and it could get worse. Only 29% say that the United States is headed in the right direction. This is the lowest level we polled on this question […] Read more »
Shifting Support for Some, But Not All, Covid Mandates
Support for Covid-19 face-mask and social distancing guidelines has dropped from half of the public to just a third in the past two months as a large majority of Americans endorse the C.D.C. relaxing its recommendations. At the same time, a little under half of the public backs workplace vaccine […] Read more »
Republicans are winning the culture wars
… Progressive Democrats have staked out ideological territory on cultural flashpoints ranging from race and gender to affirmative action, crime and policing, education, and COVID restrictions that are out of the political mainstream. Some of these fights, like the battle over inclusive language (like the much-discussed debate over Latinx) end […] Read more »