In the first month of Barack Obama’s second year in the White House, Fox News highlighted a controversy: a photograph showed his feet on the historic Resolute Desk. “Is President Obama disrespecting the Oval Office?” the Fox website asked. In the first month of Donald Trump’s second year, he has […] Read more »
Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?
As his first year in the White House draws to a close, Donald J. Trump remains in almost every respect a singular character. He exists well outside the boundaries of what most observers previously judged possible, let alone respectable, in American politics. To catalogue the norms he has violated, the […] Read more »
The one question likely to decide 2018 elections
As the 2018 election year begins, one question above all is likely to shape its outcome: Will Americans vote to constrain President Donald Trump by electing a Democrat-led Congress that will challenge and resist him, or to empower the Republicans who are increasingly working in harness with him? Voters have […] Read more »
Iowa went big for Trump, but there are signs its voters are souring on the president
… Iowa has seemingly soured on the president and his party. The end-of-year Iowa Poll, an industry standard conducted by Des Moines-based Selzer and Co., found Trump with just 35 percent approval in the state. Only 34 percent of Iowans said they would back Republicans for Congress in 2018, and […] Read more »
Trump ‘approval poll’ offers no negative options
The joint fundraising committee of President Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee released a three-question “Inaugural Year Approval Poll” that offers readers no option to give a negative assessment of the president’s first year in office. CONT. Kathryn Watson, CBS News Read more »
The 7 most important polling trends of 2017
2017 is almost in the books — and so are another 12 months of public opinion polling. The calendar year that President Donald Trump spent settling into the White House has been marked by consistently low ratings from a majority of the American public. But this year also has seen […] Read more »