Barack Obama campaigned for the U.S. presidency on a platform of change. As he prepares to leave office, the country he led for eight years is undeniably different. Profound social, demographic and technological changes have swept across the United States during Obama’s tenure, as have important shifts in government policy […] Read more »
Will Blue-Collar Whites Change Their Minds About Obamacare?
The impending Republican drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act is crystallizing the class contradiction long embedded in the health-care debate. From the start, President Obama’s health-care reform has faced fierce opposition from working-class whites, the same constituency that anchored Donald Trump’s electoral coalition. But blue-collar whites have been among […] Read more »
How nostalgia for white Christian America drove so many Americans to vote for Trump
… A yearning for an earlier time, especially prevalent in rural American towns and cities like Mount Airy, helped spur white evangelical Christians to vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. For these voters, the desire for change also could be viewed as a desire to change back, to what they perceive […] Read more »
From Trump to terrorism, the year in polls
An historic presidential campaign, the economy, race relations, and terrorism were some of the topics covered in CBS News Polls over the course of 2016. Here’s a look at back at what was on the minds of Americans this year. CONT. Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News Read more »
Why the white working class votes against itself
Why did all those Economically Anxious™ Trump voters reject policies that would have helped relieve their economic anxiety? Maybe they believed any Big Government expansions would disproportionately go to the “wrong” kinds of people — that is, people unlike themselves. … We’ve known for a long time, through the work […] Read more »
Split decision: Americans assess Obama’s legacy
Americans in a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll rate the Affordable Care Act as President Obama’s greatest achievement in the White House. Also, as his biggest failure. … About a third of those surveyed say Obama ultimately will be seen as a “good” president; 18% say he’ll be a “great” […] Read more »