Hillary Clinton’s path to the White House relies on reassembling the winning Obama coalition of minority voters and women, but her campaign is vying for a demographic long out of reach for Democrats—college-educated whites—that could reshape the map of U.S. swing states this year. For decades, white voters with at […] Read more »
Growing Urban-Rural Split Provides Republicans With Down-Ballot Advantages
The 2012 election provided two powerful reminders about the electoral implications of overly-concentrated Democratic voters. First, the Republicans held their U.S. House majority, won in 2010, despite the fact that the Democratic candidates in the 435 House districts received more votes than their Republican opponents. Second, these House results were […] Read more »
Chicago and Race: Perception, Polling and Reality
… Here at The Times’s polling department, we often try to assess the state of race relations and discrimination in the United States. It’s a difficult task because conversations about race often rely on coded language or careful discussion, which means there are certain things we can know through surveys, […] Read more »
Americans Reject Eliminating Departments of Government
The American public soundly disagrees with candidate Ted Cruz’s proposal to eliminate four departments of government and also comes down against his proposal to abolish the IRS. This presents a fascinating portrait of a population of people who are very negative about government in general, and yet tend to be […] Read more »
Holiday Shopping Habits Across Red and Blue America
Here’s a political note this Christmas season: Not only do liberals and conservatives think differently and vote differently – they shop differently, too. Chuck Todd, NBC News Read more »
The American Economic Divide
The political divide in the United States is being matched, and possibly driven, by the economic divide. Meet the Press Read more »