A 71% majority of Americans who watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address had a positive reaction to the speech, according to a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, with a more modest 41% reacting very positively. That’s a less enthusiastic reception than Biden received for his joint address […] Read more »
The Empathy Factor
With the State of the Union right around the corner, and President Biden mired in his fifth straight month of abysmal job approval ratings, lots of Democrats are offering advice to help the president turn things around before the midterms. … All of this advice is coming up on a […] Read more »
The Culture Has Moved Left… So the Right has Mobilized
It’s been a depressing six months or so for the left. Aside from Covid’s persistence and the resultant chaos, the progressive agenda beyond infrastructure and re-regulation of business seems stalled; the Supreme Court is charging rightward; and anti-democratic (as well as anti-Democratic) moves are afoot in many states. Savvy political […] Read more »
Controversy Over the Term ‘Latinx’: Public Opinion Context
Labels matter, and nowhere have we seen this exemplified more throughout the centuries than in controversies over names used to describe racial and ethnic groups. … One of the central threads in critiques of the use of “Latinx” is evidence measuring the opinions of rank-and-file Hispanic Americans themselves. These data […] Read more »
Can we talk? Most feel Americans get along, but vocal minority more active, divided
Social mores dictate that religion or politics are taboo topics in polite company, but hearing the other side is an important feature of a healthy society. With so many Americans feeling that democracy itself is under threat and fearing more political violence, talking and listening to each other becomes more […] Read more »
New Year’s Resolutions for Democrats
… From the vantage point of a little distance, many Democrats in Washington seem to be struggling with message. So here are some suggested New Year’s message resolutions from a thousand miles (give or take) to the South. 1. Talk about what people care about. Talking about policy and programs […] Read more »