It has consistently been the case that the speed at which the U.S. economy returns to normal depends heavily on the confidence Americans have in the safety of doing so. Polling from Quinnipiac University released Wednesday shows there’s still a great deal of reticence about resuming normal activity, with only […] Read more »
Under Trump, Democrats and Republicans have never been more divided — on nearly everything
Americans’ political behavior and beliefs have grown ever more partisan over the past 40 years. Democrats and Republicans alike have become more likely to support their own party’s candidates, to adopt their own party’s issue positions, and even to distort their perceptions of objective facts to fit their own party’s […] Read more »
Majority Continue to Call Trump’s Response a Failure
This release features findings from a national online survey of 1,011 registered voters conducted May 15-May 18, 2020. • Barack Obama is significantly more popular than Donald Trump, and the public places far more blame on the Trump administration for America’s failure to prepare for coronavirus than on the Obama […] Read more »
When the Mask You’re Wearing ‘Tastes Like Socialism’
The Covid-19 pandemic has divided Americans into two camps. To no one’s surprise, lockdown politics have joined the legion of issues that pit Democrats against Republicans. … The partisan fight over the lockdown has shown us, once again, how differently the choices government leaders make look to different constituencies of […] Read more »
For Democrats, Unified Government Is No Longer Just a Fantasy
The political outlook has changed pretty dramatically in recent months, though not in the way you might think. Even though U.S. coronavirus deaths now surpass the capacity of FedEx Field, these changes aren’t directly related to the pandemic. Nor do they stem directly from our current economic downturn, the most […] Read more »
Why Democrats Can’t Rely On Voter Anger This November
… Increased anger isn’t a new phenomenon, but it is a rising one. Political scientist Steven Webster argues in his book, “American Rage,” that this current moment of partisan rancor is the culmination of a long pattern of increased anger in American politics. Webster finds that politicians in both parties […] Read more »