“We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.” – Walter Lippmann The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — What image pops into your head when you see or hear someone say, “That’s cool, man?”…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Maybe the American public is finally seeing the evidence of climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels where they live. That as well as the heightened news coverage about it and concern being shown by politicians and agencies in Washington again has the…
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…
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…
Public Opinion – By Analyst Glynn Wilson – As the nation faces a pandemic, a weakened economy and political unrest that spiraled out of control under the rein of Donald Trump, President Joe Biden appears to be enjoying a honeymoon with the American People and the press as the hellscape year of 2020 rolls into…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of American voters, 54 percent, who tuned in to the final presidential debate in Tennessee Thursday night tell pollsters that Joe Biden was the clear winner over Donald Trump. Only 39 percent said Trump won, although many pundits gave him credit for not being as much…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – America will be celebrating independence in a few weeks on July 4 and holding an election in a few months on Nov. 3, so this seems like a good time to assess where we are psychologically after three and a half months of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession,…
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…
In the wake of the impeachment inquiry being launched, public support also jumps for Congress – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A clear majority of the American people now support the impeachment and removal from office of President Donald J. Trump, and we don’t even have a report yet from the House investigation…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Many members of the public and some politicians may not like public opinion polls, especially after what happened in the presidential election of 2016. But they are still the best snap shots of data we have to go by on how the public is thinking at any given…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the eve of the Independence Day celebration in the nation’s capital and around the country on the Fourth of July, patriotic American pride and national morale are showing record lows, according to public opinion research, largely based on the disgraceful performance of the occupant of the White…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a significant blow to Donald J. Trump’s legal attempt to block a lawsuit and investigation into how his private business practices violate the anti-corruption emoluments clauses in the U.S. Constitution, a federal court denied a series of motions by attorneys for the president this week and allowed…
Biden Leads Sanders Among Likely Democratic Party Voters 33 to 25 Percent – By Glynn Wilson – It’s still early in the race for the White House with a year and a half to go before Election Day on November 3, 2020. So public opinion surveys are not so important or reliable yet, although they…
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration’s partisan war on the environment is taking its toll not only on public lands and the planet. A new Gallup poll shows that and the booming economy due to the Obama administration’s policies are driving public opinion away from unregulated economic growth and toward more environmental protection. By…
By Glynn Wilson – As the Trump administration prepares to fight in court to gut existing health care for millions of Americans by invalidating the Affordable Care Act, and Democrats prepare to campaign in 2020 on health care as a key priority, Gallup’s annual survey of the chief problems of concern to Americans shows once…
By Glynn Wilson – Everyone knows America suffers from a sharp partisan divide. All you have to do is turn on the news on TV or glance at the news feed on Facebook to know that. But the latest analysis of the data by the Pew Research Center from the midterm elections shows how the…
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – People don’t put much trust in public opinion polls since the debacle of 2016, and admittedly, obtaining reliable data on mass public attitudes these days can be difficult. But the results of social science survey research are still important in a democracy as a snapshot of public attitudes at…
Editor’s Note: New American Journal editor and publisher Glynn Wilson is an expert at analyzing public opinion data having studied survey research at the University of Alabama as an undergrad in the early 1980s and a grad student in the mid-1990s. He has covered public opinion and politics as a specialty for newspapers, wire services…
By Glynn Wilson – In spite of false rhetoric from Republican politicians in the United States and fake news claiming there is no such thing as global warming, a record number of Americans are concerned about climate change due to global warming, they believe it is occurring now and consider it a serious threat, and…
