Only One-Third of College Students Feel Comfortable Living in a Dorm This Fall

As colleges and universities grapple with how to safely reopen campuses this month, most students are not ready to return to normal. … A majority (52%) of students say they do not trust their university to protect students and faculty from the coronavirus if campus reopens in the fall, compared […] Read more »

Young Black Americans not sold on Biden, the Democrats or voting

Will young, Black Americans turn out to vote in November? Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images David C. Barker, American University School of Public Affairs and Sam Fulwood III, American University Most political analysts define “swing voters” as those who swing their support from one party to the other between election […] Read more »

Who’s behind Trump’s big polling deficit? Two key groups defecting to Biden.

In the wake of a pandemic and the protests following George Floyd’s death, voters’ support for President Donald Trump has tanked. His average deficit against Joe Biden in national polls has ballooned from 6 percentage points in March to 9 points in July. … But a closer look at the […] Read more »

President Trump is losing support among young white working-class voters

So far in his re-election campaign, President Trump has stubbornly refused to expand his base, playing instead to a brand of populist conservatism that rests on solid support from white working-class voters. But a Pew Research Center survey released at the end of June suggests that voters in this group […] Read more »

Trump Wants a Backlash. Can He Whip One Into Shape?

The public response to the demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd is now beginning to take shape more clearly along familiar ideological lines — in ways that are likely to propel politics this year and beyond, dividing left and right as Democrats and Republicans take opposing stands on the […] Read more »