Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of the impact of several of the nation’s leading institutions – including the news media, colleges and universities and churches and religious organizations – and in some cases, the gap in these views is significantly wider today than it was just a year […] Read more »
Can the Democratic Party Find New Voters?
The relentless focus on the white working class in the aftermath of the election of President Trump has overshadowed a much larger bloc of voters, the roughly 65 million service sector workers whose partisan loyalty is up for grabs. This immense and diverse employment sector is set to become a […] Read more »
Most Americans see labor unions, corporations favorably
With President Donald Trump’s labor secretary nominee set to appear before the Senate next week, the public has broadly positive views of both labor unions and business corporations. CONT. Shiva Maniam, Pew Read more »
Americans Still See Big Government as Top Threat
As businessman Donald Trump prepares to become the nation’s 45th president, Americans continue to express more concern about the threat big government poses to the U.S. than big business or big labor. Two in three Americans (67%) identify big government as the country’s biggest threat. CONT. Noam Fishman & Alyssa […] Read more »
Was Barack Obama Bad for Democrats?
President Obama will be remembered as a thoughtful and dignified president who led a scrupulously honest administration that achieved major changes. … To be truly transformative in the way he wanted, however, his success had to translate into electoral gains for those who shared his vision and wanted to reform […] Read more »
1990s Oregon campaigns anticipated Trump’s politics of division
Arlene Stein, Rutgers University The white working class surprised many pundits and social scientists by supporting Donald Trump, leading some to describe the election results as a “whitelash.” The fact that the president-elect successfully mobilized this population was far from inevitable. After all, a fair number of Trump supporters once […] Read more »