The share of the Democratic presidential vote in the Midwest declined most precipitously between 2012 and 2020 in counties that experienced the steepest losses in manufacturing and union jobs and saw declines in health care, according to a new report to be released this month. The party’s worsening performance in […] Read more »
Support for Secession Linked to Conspiracy Belief
Key Points• Belief in conspiracy theories is most consistently correlated with Biden and Trump voters who favor secession.• The majority of citizens who voted for Joe Biden or Donald Trump in the last election, when combined, believe in at least one of the conspiracy theories (43% of Biden voters and […] Read more »
Why the Senate doesn’t work anymore
Anger is peaking among a wide range of Democrats toward Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema over their resistance to President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, but the Democrats’ struggle to pass Biden’s sweeping plan is rooted in more than the personal idiosyncrasies and electoral calculations of two individual senators. It […] Read more »
President Joe Biden’s Job Approval Stabilizes, But Not Among Democrats
President Biden has halted the slide in his job approval rating after taking a hit over the tumultuous exit from Afghanistan, Covid resurgence and uneven economic recovery, the October IBD/TIPP Poll finds. However, Biden’s job approval among Democrats, while still elevated, is leaking air as he seeks consensus with moderates […] Read more »
1 in 3 Americans Say They Might Consider Abolishing or Limiting Supreme Court
As the Supreme Court’s fall term begins, a new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania finds that more than a third of Americans say they might be willing to abolish the Supreme Court or have Congress limit its jurisdiction if the court were to […] Read more »
Bipartisan Support for Resettling Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the war
After the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan at the end of August, Americans across the political spectrum largely support efforts to resettle Afghan refugees who worked alongside the U.S. or Afghan governments during the 20-year war. Overall, fewer approve of resettling Afghan refugees who fear living under Taliban rule. […] Read more »