J. Miles Coleman, Sabato’s Crystal Ball 2020 presidential election showing the lean of Biden-won states The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up here: opiniontoday.substack Read more »
To understand American politics, you need to move beyond left and right
There’s a more sophisticated way to understand how Americans divide themselves politically. Torsten Asmus/ iStock / Getty Images Plus Graham Wright, Brandeis University and Sasha Volodarsky, Northeastern University Are Americans really as politically polarized as they seem – and everybody says? It’s definitely true that Democrats and Republicans increasingly hate […] Read more »
The Tennessee expulsions reveal the core divide in US politics. Here’s why.
Rarely have the tectonic plates of American politics collided as visibly and explosively as they did earlier this month in Tennessee. The procession of predominantly middle-aged or older White Republicans who rose almost two weeks ago in the Tennessee House of Representatives to castigate, and then expel, two young Black […] Read more »
Most say congressional Republicans should let Trump investigations run their course
Americans by and large don’t want Republicans in Congress interfering with law enforcement’s investigations into former President Donald Trump. But that’s different for a majority of rank-and-file Republicans, in particular MAGA Republicans, who do want their representatives to try to stop them. And that comes as rank-and-file Republicans express more […] Read more »
Most want abortion pill to remain available
A big majority of Americans want to see the abortion pill mifepristone remain available. Even some who are more generally opposed to abortion hold this view. On a broader level, American women feel access to reproductive health care is getting harder today rather than easier, by about four to one. […] Read more »
America’s parents show increasing concern over gun violence — CBS News poll
Social pressures. Bullies. Academics. These are all things generations of American children have had to worry about. Today, their parents tell us, there’s another worry weighing on most of them, too: the prospect of gun violence. It’s increasingly on parents’ minds, as well; concern among America’s parents now is even […] Read more »