New information about the 2020 election reveals a growing shift among Latino voters away from the Democratic party. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with OpenLabs R&D researcher David Shor about it. NPR News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up […] Read more »
The New York mayoral primary is a reminder that Black and Latino voters are pragmatic
Primaries are about factional battles within parties, and Eric Adams won a major fight last week. The message from Adams’s win in New York City’s Democratic primary — echoing that of President Biden’s victory last fall — is that the Democratic Party is much more than the progressive left, even […] Read more »
The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It
The presidency of George W. Bush may have been the high point of the modern Christian right’s influence in America. White evangelicals were the largest religious faction in the country. “They had a president who claimed to be one of their own, he had a testimony, talked in evangelical terms,” […] Read more »
Law and Order, with Caveats
While crime has been on a steady downward decline from 1990s, 2020 saw a strong reversal in this trend. COVID related? Unclear. Whatever the ultimate cause, Americans are worried about crime again. As our latest polling with USA Today shows, America sees law and order as the answer to the […] Read more »
Trump’s Cult of Animosity Shows No Sign of Letting Up
In 2016, Donald Trump recruited voters with the highest levels of animosity toward African Americans, assembling a “schadenfreude” electorate — voters who take pleasure in making the opposition suffer — that continues to dominate the Republican Party, even in the aftermath of the Trump presidency. With all his histrionics and […] Read more »
Celebrating America, Faultlines Notwithstanding
… As we reflect on the America of today, let’s not forget about the faultlines running through society. Our own polling shows that while most Americans are proud to be, well, American. But what version of America will they be celebrating this Fourth, and how do they perceive the current […] Read more »