J. Miles Coleman, Sabato’s Crystal Ball 2020 presidential election showing the lean of Biden-won states The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up here: opiniontoday.substack Read more »
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches unlikely presidential bid backed by 14% of Biden voters
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches his unlikely bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday with the support of 14% of voters who backed President Joe Biden in 2020, an exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. That is surprising strength for a candidate who has a famous political name but is […] Read more »
What we miss when we focus on Trump
Former President Trump drives media attention, whether the story is about his first-quarter fundraising or the whereabouts of his wife, Melania. Broadcast-media ratings remained unusually high while he was in office and spiked again after his recent indictment. Financial Times columnist Edward Luce wrote that the media circus around Trump’s […] Read more »
A boxing-style rematch has been a long time coming in presidential politics
After a marquee boxing match, we’ve become conditioned to expect a rematch. But not so much in presidential contests. … Not since Adlai Stevenson was nominated by the Democratic National Convention in 1956 for a second shot at Dwight Eisenhower has a party gone back to the loser of the […] Read more »
Most say congressional Republicans should let Trump investigations run their course
Americans by and large don’t want Republicans in Congress interfering with law enforcement’s investigations into former President Donald Trump. But that’s different for a majority of rank-and-file Republicans, in particular MAGA Republicans, who do want their representatives to try to stop them. And that comes as rank-and-file Republicans express more […] Read more »
Most want abortion pill to remain available
A big majority of Americans want to see the abortion pill mifepristone remain available. Even some who are more generally opposed to abortion hold this view. On a broader level, American women feel access to reproductive health care is getting harder today rather than easier, by about four to one. […] Read more »