After a heated midterm election, widely considered both a referendum on President Biden and a test for former President Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy, the latest Fox News Poll finds little support for a rematch in the next presidential election. The survey of registered voters, released Thursday, finds almost two-thirds (64%) […] Read more »
New poll shows slight thaw for Biden approval, resilient support for Trump
Once Republicans reclaim House control in January, the U.S. will again be under a divided government, and according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll, a majority of Americans have no confidence that lawmakers will be willing to work together to solve the nation’s complex problems. That’s despite the fact that […] Read more »
Americans want compromise, but have no confidence Congress will work together
Three-quarters of Americans say they want members of Congress to compromise with the other side, the highest in at least a decade, but most have no confidence they will, the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. Seventy-four percent said Congress should compromise. But Americans have gotten more pessimistic that their leaders […] Read more »
Party Images Stable After Midterm Elections
After the midterm elections that resulted in the Republican Party gaining a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Democratic Party holding on to their slim edge in the U.S. Senate, Americans’ views of the two major parties are essentially unchanged. Forty-two percent of U.S. adults say […] Read more »
The beginning of the end for Donald Trump? Probably.
… Like other political analysts, I have come to believe over the past few years that a large chunk of the GOP — maybe a third or even more — retains its allegiance to Trump, and that will not change. But over the past two midterms (2018 and 2022), the […] Read more »
Who are the extremists?
… As I argued here earlier, poor-quality Republican candidates played a key role in suppressing the widely anticipated red wave, and their extremism contributed significantly to the diminished quality of many defeated Republicans. But before Democratic triumphalism becomes dogma, it is important to recognize that, in the public mind, both […] Read more »