If Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is truly concerned about preserving the Court’s legitimacy in American life, as he’s often suggested, Brett Kavanaugh has become his worst nightmare. After Friday’s Senate Judiciary Committee session, Kavanaugh is facing a renewed FBI investigation into the sexual-assault charges against him from Christine […] Read more »
Partisans Remain Sharply Divided in Their Attitudes About the News Media
After a year of continued tension between President Donald Trump and the news media, the partisan divides in attitudes toward the news media that widened in the wake of the 2016 presidential election remain stark, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data of 5,035 U.S. adults […] Read more »
How the Republicans Fell for Trump’s Overconfidence Game
The topic never pops up in statistical analyses or pundit roundtables on cable TV, but one of the most underappreciated factors shaping politics is overconfidence. … All this brings us to the most laughable manifestation of overconfidence in the 2018 campaign. It comes courtesy of an internal Republican National Committee […] Read more »
NPR/Marist Poll: 1 In 3 Americans Think A Foreign Country Will Change Midterm Votes
About 1 out of every 3 American adults think a foreign country is likely to change vote tallies and results in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new NPR/Marist poll released Monday. … The results give credence to what election officials have been worried about since at least the […] Read more »
NPR/Marist Poll: 40 Percent Of Americans Think Elections Aren’t Fair
In a sign that America’s two centuries-old democracy is under strain, nearly 2 in 5 American voters do not believe elections are fair, according to a new NPR/Marist poll. Nearly half of respondents lack faith that votes will be counted accurately in the upcoming midterm elections. Race, gender and partisan […] Read more »
Less than 1 in 5 trust Trump to tell the truth
A national USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll finds voters are more likely to back Democrats in their district’s election for the United States House of Representatives, giving Democrats an 8 percentage point advantage over Republicans. … Just under 20 percent of the public nationwide considers Trump as a source of […] Read more »