The first wave of findings from our just completed national survey of 1,000 likely voters (+/- 3.1% at 95% C.I. taken between April 16 and 20), show more fully the dramatic extent of the unprecedented change in American voter public opinion due to the coronavirus great pandemic. Coronavirus health concerns […] Read more »
Conservatives believe they’re battling to save America’s soul by supporting Trump
Conservatives are preparing to wage political war against Democrats by painting them as socialists — and therefore un-American. That’s what I learned from my research at the 2019 and 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest annual meeting of conservatives in the country, which took place this year from […] Read more »
Bernie: The Left is Still Waiting for the Proletariat Vote
Bernie Sanders often declared that his is “a campaign of the working class, by the working class, and for the working class,” calling for that class to rise up, vote for him, and make the democratic socialist revolution. He was sorely disappointed. At this writing, soon after the second “Super […] Read more »
Americans’ Reactions to the Word ‘Socialism’
The word “socialism” is likely to resonate throughout the 2020 election campaign, regardless of which candidate eventually gets the Democratic Party nomination. … What does the word “socialism” mean to the average American? Thanks to the reintroduction of the term into the political discourse by Sanders (and other politicians like […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Three in 10 voters view socialism positively
Capitalism beats socialism by a two-to-one margin in the latest Fox News Poll. By a 26-point spread, voters have a more positive than negative view of capitalism (56 favorable – 30 unfavorable). The opposite holds true for socialism, where sentiment is net negative by 30 points (28 favorable – 58 […] Read more »
If Democrats Aren’t Terrified of Bernie, They’re Not Paying Attention
… At the heart of Sanders’s campaign is a hard-core socialist vanguard which is indifferent to the Democratic Party except as a potential vessel for the Bernie revolution. Their calculation is perfectly rational. Even if Sanders is likely to lose, the small chance of success is worth the risk to […] Read more »