Click the map to create your own here – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — It’s the day after Election Day 2020 and there’s still no declared winner in the presidential race, although as the absentee and mail-in votes are counted today and this week in key battleground states, experts are still giving the…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From the beaches of Gulf Shores to Lookout Mountain, Alabama has one more chance to be something and matter in the United States of America in something other than football. But first the people must reject electing a former football coach with no experience in politics, government and…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Counting down to the final days of the 2020 election, public opinion is holding steady in favor of overturning Donald Trump’s alt-right view of the world, if only by a slim majority. In the latest Morning Consult poll, Democrat Joe Biden holds onto a 9 point lead among…
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…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – A whopping 88 percent of Democrats say the announcement of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s pick for Vice President made them hopeful, and roughly 4 out 5 say it makes them confident, proud, happy or “excited,” according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll just out Thursday night. That’s the share of…
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…
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…
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…
“The necessaries of life for man in this climate may, accurately enough, be distributed under the several heads of Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel; for not till we have secured these are we prepared to entertain the true problems of life with freedom and a prospect of success.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden The Big…
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. — For the first time in his highly controversial roller coaster ride of a presidency, Donald Trump may be in real trouble. The news about the new impeachment investigation launched by House Democrats has reached the American people, and now a solid majority of 55 percent support the inquiry,…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Americans celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday in September with barbecue, beans and boat rides, this is a good time to reflect on the status of organized labor in the United States in terms of politics and public opinion. This should be a big anniversary for…
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 – As a political issue, the social wedge issue of abortion only serves to divide Americans and does nothing to solve any real economic or social issues facing governments at the federal, state or local level. While public opinion polls have shown Americans equally divided at 48 percent of the public identifying…
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 – 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…
Camping, Hiking and Boating at Kymulga Grist Mill and Covered Bridge Park
