… For many of us, we are going into our sixth week of isolation. There is much talk among public authorities of easing up restrictions. Trump’s presser yesterday detailed a multi-stage plan for opening things up. However, no real details or timelines were articulated. Politicians and politicos, especially Republicans, are […] Read more »
Americans See Spread of Disease as Top International Threat, Along With Terrorism, Nuclear Weapons, Cyberattacks
Americans continue to see many international issues – including terrorism, the spread of nuclear weapons and cyberattacks – as major threats to the well-being of the nation. But as the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, the greatest threat named by Americans in a March 3-29 Pew Research Center survey is […] Read more »
Increasing Polarization on Immigration, but Common Ground Remains for Path to Citizenship, Opposing Family Separation
As the Trump administration continues to drastically reshape immigration policy in the United States, new analysis from a PRRI survey of 2,527 Americans finds deepening divides on immigration policies and perceptions of immigrants along lines of party, religion, and age. Notably, there remains bipartisan, cross-religious support for a path to […] Read more »
How Democrats Win In 2020
… With the biggest single day of the primaries behind us, pundits, politicos, and voters have begun to make sense of why exactly Joe Biden won big. According to Rachel Bitecofer of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, the answer is that a critical mass of […] Read more »
AP VoteCast: Black voters carry Biden to his first victory
Vice President Joe Biden has for weeks looked to the black voters of South Carolina to hand a win to his flagging campaign. On Saturday, they delivered. Biden won about 60% of the votes cast by non-white voters, dominating a crowded Democratic field among a group that made up more […] Read more »
Nevada caucus: Bernie Sanders leading in initial preference
Bernie Sanders is leading by a large margin in the initial preference of caucus-goers entering the caucus, according to CBS News entrance polls. … Entrance polls indicated health care was the top issue on the minds of Nevada caucus voters — more than four in 10 picked it, followed by […] Read more »