President Donald Trump’s approval ratings among African Americans have declined, not “doubled,” as the president claimed in a recent tweet. The source of Trump’s boast appears to be a misreading of data from the online polling firm SurveyMonkey. Weekly surveys conducted by that organization show that his approval rating among […] Read more »
Most Americans support DACA, but oppose border wall
Nearly nine in 10 Americans favor allowing young immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children to remain in the U.S. – a policy known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. … Three in four Americans find the remarks President Trump reportedly made about immigration from Haiti […] Read more »
How Sex Trumped Race
… Relative to where American politics stood before his rise, Trump’s campaign polarized America more by class and gender than it did by race. And then, by jettisoning much of the populist economic agenda he campaigned on, Trump’s actual presidency has made class less important and gender more essential to […] Read more »
Trump tweeted his black approval rating has doubled. It hasn’t.
President Donald Trump bragged on Twitter that his approval rating with black Americans has doubled. It hasn’t. Only 15% of black Americans said they approved of Trump’s job performance in the days following his inauguration last January — and it’s only gone downhill from there. CONT. Ryan Struyk, CNN Unemployment […] Read more »
Immigration a Top Problem for Republicans, Not for Democrats
Partisan differences are clearly visible in Americans’ assessments of the most important problem facing the country. Dissatisfaction with government ranks at or near the top of the list of the country’s most important problems for both Republicans (16%) and Democrats (30%), though the percentages differ substantially. But while immigration ties […] Read more »
White racial resentment has been gaining political power for decades
With his crude comment last week about Haiti and Africa, President Trump once again put race front and center in U.S. politics — as he has been doing since he launched his campaign. … Our research shows that racial attitudes have been increasingly influencing U.S. public opinion for at least […] Read more »