A majority of Americans think President Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., was “not strong enough,” according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll … The poll also found a strong consensus across the political spectrum that the car attack should be investigated as an act of domestic terrorism — […] Read more »
Donald Trump Knows How to Push Our Buttons
Last week, when President Trump called on the police to use rough justice in dealing with violent Latino gangs, there was a clear method to his madness. … Underlying Trump’s defiance of law enforcement norms is a calculated strategy advocating the use of force, with the twofold goal of pushing […] Read more »
Expert Survey on American Democracy: July 2017
Our July 2017 survey (the third in a monthly series) confirms a great deal of pessimism about American democracy and increasing concern over the past two months. From June to July, ratings worsened on nearly every dimension, with especially large shifts on elections and political rhetoric. Democracy experts see American […] Read more »
Public to Trump: Lay off the Twitter
Americans are highly disapproving of President Donald Trump in personal terms, with his tweeting habit a major irritant. Seventy percent say he’s acted in an unpresidential manner since taking office, 68 percent don’t see him as a positive role model, and 67 percent disapprove of his use of Twitter. CONT. […] Read more »
Pollster Frank Luntz talks about ‘words that work’ at Western Governors’ Annual Meeting
Dr. Frank Luntz, the pollster whose “Instant Response” technique has made him one of the country’s most influential communication professionals, delivered an impassioned keynote at the WGA Annual Meeting in Montana on June 27, 2017. CONT. Western Governors’ Association Read more »
Twitter’s Passion Politics
… To better understand how political discourse works on Twitter, we recently analyzed more than half a million public tweets on three political topics — same-sex marriage, gun control and climate change — in the year leading up to the 2016 election. Our research, which was published this month in […] Read more »