The entire political world is watching Alabama’s Senate race, but what happens Tuesday is anybody’s guess. The highly unusual nature of the election, along with the difficulty faced by pollsters, has made the race murkier than a cypress swamp. Recent polls show Republican Roy Moore leading Democrat Doug Jones by […] Read more »
Poll: Discrimination Against Women Is Common Across Races, Ethnicities, Identities
Discrimination in the form of sexual harassment has been in the headlines for weeks now, but new poll results being released by NPR show that other forms of discrimination against women are also pervasive in American society. The poll is a collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the […] Read more »
Poll Hub: The Future of Public Opinion Polls
With trust in the U.S. electoral system waning and indications of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election looming, could public opinion polls assume a new role in American democracy? … Could public opinion polls be used, as in emerging democracies, to validate election outcomes? Poll Hub picks up that […] Read more »
Jones needs black voters to beat Moore in Alabama. They aren’t there yet.
… African-Americans make up about 27 percent of the state’s population, and Jones will need them to turn out in droves on Tuesday, since he’s expected to win just a third of whites, at best. Only 15 percent of white Alabamians voted for Barack Obama in 2012, according to exit […] Read more »
The Millennials are coming
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017, was a big night for Democrats. Democrats won a lot of races they were not expected to win, especially in the well-educated suburbs that were supposed to make the difference for Hillary Clinton last year, but didn’t. One thing that stuck out to me, though, was […] Read more »
Will President Trump be a drag on Republicans running in 2018?
The Post’s polling team analyzed Virginia’s 2017 gubernatorial race to see if a “Trump effect” was at play. Washington Post Read more »