After Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus commissioned an autopsy to determine what had gone wrong. High on the list: a yawning gender gap. … So Priebus must not be terribly happy that the party’s (temporary) front-runner, Donald Trump, said Fox News anchor Megyn […] Read more »
If the American People Were Running the GOP Debate
If the American people were running the Republican debate Thursday night, here are the questions they would ask the candidates — based on our latest assessment of what the people say are the most important problems facing the country today. No gotcha questions or efforts to stump the candidates or […] Read more »
What’s behind the Trump bump? A disgruntled GOP electorate
Donald Trump’s so-far durable support in the Republican race for the presidential nomination rests largely on widespread dissatisfaction with Washington, and has been bolstered by his vocal criticism of the country’s immigration policies. A new CNN/ORC Poll finds that just 30% of registered voters nationwide say they feel their views […] Read more »
American Public Opinion and Immigration
Presidential candidate Donald Trump brought the issue of immigration back into the forefront of the news media focus with his June 16 announcement speech, including his widely-quoted views on illegal immigrants from Mexico. What do we know about the context of public opinion into which Trump’s comments were dropped? CONT. […] Read more »
Racism Edges Up Again as Most Important U.S. Problem
The percentage of Americans naming race relations or racism as the most important problem facing the country increased to 9% this month, up from 3% in June. Mentions of race relations as a top problem have risen and fallen multiple times over the past seven months as racially charged events […] Read more »
Noticias Univisión Poll: The Latino Vote
The first public opinion poll for the 2016 presidential campaign, conducted among Hispanic voters in an exclusive by Noticias Univisión, reveals that aspiring Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is comfortably ahead of her main Republican rivals within this important voter constituency. If the presidential election were to take place at […] Read more »