The reshaping of the two parties’ coalitions under the blast-force pressure of Donald Trump’s iconoclastic candidacy may reach unprecedented heights in 2016, the first polls released after the GOP convention suggest. National surveys released on Monday by CBS and CNN/ORC show the gap between the preferences of whites with and […] Read more »
Americans’ Satisfaction With U.S. Drops Sharply
Americans’ satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. dropped 12 percentage points in the past month, amid high-profile police killings of black men and mass shootings of police. Currently, 17% of Americans are satisfied with the state of affairs in the U.S. CONT. Art Swift, Gallup Read more »
Trump’s Battle for College-Educated White Voters
The most striking argument from the podium during the Republican convention’s first nights was Donald Trump Jr.’s claim that his father had more respect for blue-collar “street smarts” than white-collar book smarts earned at “fancy colleges.” It was yet another instance of cultural signaling from the Trump campaign toward the […] Read more »
Views on Experience vs. Outsider Status Pose a Potential Challenge for Trump
Americans prefer experience to outsider status in the next president and also give it a higher priority in an ABC News/Washington Post poll, a potential challenge for Donald Trump as he builds toward the general election campaign. … The poll also finds broad agreement that the next president should focus […] Read more »
The End Of A Republican Party
… Many have assumed that adherence to a certain conservative purity was the engine of the GOP, and given the party’s demographic homogeneity, this made sense. But re-evaluating recent history in light of Trump, and looking a bit closer at this year’s numbers, something else seems to be the primary […] Read more »
Poll: Clinton Better Than Trump on Fixing Strained Race Relations
A plurality of Americans believe Democrat Hillary Clinton is the best equipped presidential candidate to deal with problems between police and African Americans, according to a new poll that shows voters with a bleak view of race relations in the country. CONT. Rebecca Ballhaus, Wall Street Journal Read more »