Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Majorities of Americans continue to support charitable causes, according to a recent Gallup Poll, although not so much religious groups. More than three-quarters of American adults surveyed, 76 percent, report that they gave money to a nonprofit organization in the past year, and 63 percent said they…
By Glynn Wilson – With less than four weeks to go before the critical election on Nov. 5, anxiety is off the charts in the United States, especially in hurricane ravaged Florida and North Carolina where Hurricanes Helene and Milton are making it hard for people to even think about voting. Thousands of weary residents…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – With only five weeks to go until the election on Nov. 5, the stakes could not be higher as the latest public opinion polls still show a close race for president. Although the latest compilation average of all the polls show that Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican…
Nearly eight in 10 Democrats say they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Measuring voter enthusiasm is one way to gauge trends in the run up to an election, and on that front thanks to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, enthusiasm among Democrats to vote in November…
Staff Report – It’s important to make a good first impression, they say, whether you’re on a first date, interviewing for a job – or running to be vice president of the United States. And the two men who recently joined the Republican and Democratic presidential tickets have made very different first impressions. JD Vance…
By Glynn Wilson – As the Democrats begin arriving in Chicago for a national convention like no other, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, are arriving by way of a bus tour through Pennsylvania, a critical swing state with the potential to decide the presidential election in November. They…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The race is on. Only 90 days to go. And Tim Walz for Veep? Wow! “We can sleep when we’re dead” indeed. More like a country singer than a rock star, a cross between Harry Truman, Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter, while the vice…
Editor’s Note: For too many politicians and corporate media pundits, politics is a “game.” They talk about everything except the most important issues facing the working class of our country – the vast majority of the people, according to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. His campaign recently conducted a poll which found, not surprisingly, that in…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – Vice President Kamala Harris opens her campaign for president with a two-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday. The national poll shows her leading…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The worm is beginning to turn, and not in Trump’s favor. For the past six months, news outfits have pushed out story after story claiming former President Donald Trump was ahead of President Joe Biden in the polls in the presidential election of 2024, keeping Trump supporters feeling…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Are you tired of seeing these headlines saying challenger Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in the polls with less than six months to go before the presidential election of 2024? Are you sick of these stories bashing Biden for his age, and…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a time not that long ago when researchers could draw a statistical correlation between what the press in America was reporting about problems facing the country and the world and how the public responded to public opinion survey questions naming the top…
But Biden Leads Trump by Two if He’s Convicted of a Felony – By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Break time is over. It’s time to get to work on the elections of 2024, now less than 10 months away on Tuesday, Nov. 5. A new public opinion poll by…
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…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of Americans favor stronger gun control laws, opinions that are at odds with the Republicans in Congress, where doing anything about guns is a non-starter in spite of a major spike in deadly mass shootings in the United States over the past few years. According to the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As wars continue to rage in Israel-Gaza and Russia-Ukraine, and the Republicans still can’t seem to find a Speaker of the House they can get behind, what is the American public paying attention to and concerned about these days? Judging by what people seem to be interested in…
“Tuberville lives in Auburn, Alabama, with his wife Suzanne.” — website of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — We’ve often reported that former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville is not a resident of Alabama. Republican voters elected him as a U.S. Senator anyway. Now the Washington Post Fact Checker has proved…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — American public approval of the United States Supreme Court remains the lowest in public opinion history as this conservative majority of 6-3 made up of Trump and Bush appointees continues its onslaught of rulings upending decades of established precedent. The latest public approval rating…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the presidential election of 2024 still 15 months away, it is far too early to put much stock in the results of public opinion polls. But for those of us who are educated and trained in such things, there is some news benefit in…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A year after voters in the United States attached record-high importance to abortion as an election issue after the Supreme Court overturned decades of settled law to make its legality questionable again, a new Gallup poll finds the issue retaining its potency especially for…
