Public Opinion – National Politics – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wait just a doggone minute. Did The New York Times just bury the lede? In the Sunday Times, a banner headline promoting a public opinion story about the 2024 presidential election proclaimed that President Joe Biden was trailing former President Donald Trump…
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Fighting the Civil War One More Time: Will 2024 be the Last Stand of the White Christian Nationalists?
Will 2023 Be the Year Republicans Finally Abandon Trump?
An Independent Run by Liz Cheney Could Hand President Joe Biden Another Term – By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After tiptoeing around the issue for two years, Republicans will be forced to reckon with a major question as they begin their 2024 presidential nominating process in 2023: What to…
Poll: Nearly Sixty Percent of Americans Say Trump Should be Charged for Jan. 6 Insurrection
Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Faces Little Opposition From Voters
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick, has more initial support for her confirmation than any of the three jurists nominated by President Donald Trump, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll. Only 17 percent of voters oppose the nomination. A plurality of voters, 46 percent,…
Americans Are Not Into Facebook’s New Name or CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Survey Shows
Staff Report – A week after Facebook Inc. announced its new corporate name Meta, along with a new logo as part of the company’s strategic shift toward focusing on the metaverse, the public’s initial reaction to the rebrand is less than enthusiastic, according to new data from Morning Consult. Americans feel even more unfavorably toward…
Surveys Show Americans are Less Concerned About Climate Change Than People Around the World
There is little doubt this is caused by political rhetoric and media coverage – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If there are any communications scholars out there still trying to figure out how to accurately measure political and media influence on public opinion, look no further than a new survey out from the…
Research Shows Many American Conservative Republicans Suffer From Right-Wing Authoritarian Tendencies
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It will come as no surprise to college educated Democrats, liberal college professors and experienced journalists that American conservative Republicans who supported Donald Trump are subject to right-wing propaganda, political manipulation and suffer from authoritarian tendencies in the name of a mixed up anti-government philosophy based on a…
Half of American Voters Now Realize Climate Change is a ‘Critical Threat’
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Is the glass half full or half empty? It’s unclear whether we should report this as good news, meaning we are making progress informing the American public to pay attention to climate change news, or bad news showing that half of Americans are ignorant boobs. According to…
President Biden’s Job Approval Rating Stands at 57 Percent in First 100 Days
The American Public’s Concern for the Environment is A Cause for Worry
Water Pollution Remains the Top Environmental Concern in the U.S. – Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – The American public is not worried enough about the state of the natural environment to save themselves or the world. That’s not the headline on the latest Gallup poll reporting concern for environmental issues in the…
A Majority of 56 Percent of Registered Voters in the U.S. Say Trump Does Not Deserve Reelection
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of registered voters in the United States, 56 percent, believe President Donald Trump does not deserve to be reelected, while just 43 percent say he does, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. The percentage of voters who say Trump deserves reelection to a second…
Trump Support Drops in Wake of News About His Failing Business Empire, Negative Tax Status
By Glynn Wilson – A whopping 80 percent of American voters now say Donald Trumpâs business interests have influenced his decisions as president, according to a new Morning Consult poll. And 50 percent now say that’s a bad thing, up 6 points this week after critical revelations came out in the The New York Times…
The Pollsters and Pundits Say Joe Biden Holds a Comfortable Lead Over Donald Trump in the Presidential Race: Could They Be Wrong Again?
By Glynn Wilson – Could it be that the national public opinion pundits are at it again, over estimating the support for Democrat Joe Biden and underestimating the stealth support for reelecting President Donald Trump? Before I could grab the results from the latest Morning Consult poll and write a story about it, New York…
Majority of U.S. Voters Say the Next President Should Pick New Supreme Court Justice to Replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By Glynn Wilson – The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the political fight over her replacement could jolt the presidential race and the competitive battle for control of the United States Senate just six weeks before the election, prompting survey research company the Morning Consult Poll to question whether Democratic or…
Post Convention Bump Evaporates: Polls Show Democrat Biden Leading Trump by Eight Points With Two Months to Go
Biden Leads in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Colorado – By Glynn Wilson – Democrats should be able to issue a collective sigh of relief at least for a few minutes in the first week of September as the Democratic Party’s ticket for president, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, still holds an eight point lead nationally…
Gallup Polls Show Trump’s Damage to Republican Party: Elections 2020 Are Democrats to Lose
U.S. Party Preferences Swing Sharply To Democrats – By Glynn Wilson – Gallup’s latest polling reveals the damage President Donald J. Trump has done to the Republican Party and indicates the presidential and U.S. Senate elections in 2020 are the Democrats to lose with less than four months to go. While Trump seemed to be…
Not Since Nixon Has a President Been So Isolated and Hated: Trump Has to Go
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – Not since Richard Nixon sat forlorn with a bottle of whiskey in the West Wing trying to stave off impeachment during the Watergate scandal has a president found himself so isolated, alone, hated and embattled in the White House. Will Donald Trump resort to…
Trump’s Job Approval Falls Below 40 Percent, but Don’t Count on Overnight Results in November 2020
By Glynn Wilson – For one of the fews times in Donald Trump’s presidency, his job approval rating has fallen below 40 percent, a harbinger of problems ahead in his drive for reelection in November that could make a second term “unlikely,” according to Gallup. Satisfaction with how things are going in the United States…