Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the eve of Earth Day 2023, public opinion on the very real problem of global warming appears stagnant. What will it take to get past the majority of 60 percent of Americans who consistently say global warming and its effects on the climate…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of registered voters in the United States, 51 percent, say they approve of the indictment of former President Donald Trump on fraud charges for his role in a scheme to pay hush-money to adult film star Stormy Daniels to hide the sexual…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A clear majority of Americans believe an indictment of Donald Trump in any of the criminal investigations pending against the former president should be enough to stop him from actively campaigning for another term as president. When asked whether criminal charges should disqualify Trump…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Are you still working from home and staying home most of the time, avoiding contact with members of the public as much as possible and wearing a mask when you must go out to the store? If you are still feeling the stress and…
Junk Fees Prevention Act Enjoys Overwhelming, Bipartisan Support – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Let’s face it, President Joe Biden has not been the most universally popular president, with his job approval ratings consistently in the low 40s. But his idea to limit “junk fees” by law appears to have hit a major nerve…
By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Elon Musk of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, the methhead hacker/programmers at Google and YouTube and their lobbyists in Washington, as well as their Republican friends in the House, do not want to hear this. But there is little doubt that more government regulation of social media is…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Are you feeling basically optimistic or pessimistic about 2023 as we head into the new year? It’s understandable why people would be careful about predicting a great year ahead considering everything that’s happened in the U.S. and the world since 2016. If you are…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republican Party managed to eke out a slim majority in the House on Wednesday, according to announcements that broke in the late afternoon eight days after Election Day, after Republican Congressman Mike Garcia of the 27th District in California appeared to win his race with Democrat Christy…
Late Vote Counting in Western States Favors Democrats, So Don’t Count Control of the House Out Yet – By Glynn Wilson – Political Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defying the historical odds and the predictions of every famous, mainstream pollster and media pundit in the United States who said the Republicans were surging in the…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While pollsters across the political spectrum are showing a rising problem of predicting the outcome of elections in advance using telephone surveys, Google searches and such, one trend that has been overlooked by many analysts and pundits is the advantage gained by Democrats from…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The pollsters and pundits are at it again. Regular followers will recall what I wrote back in July, when I chastised the mainstream public opinion media establishment for predicting a Republican sweep of both houses of Congress in November simply based on historical precedent in midterm elections.…
Increasing the Likelihood that Democrats Will Hold the Senate in November – By Glynn Wilson – Political Analyst – With just over three weeks to go until Election Day 2022, Nov. 8, control of the United States Senate still hangs in the balance. But new developments are giving pollsters more confidence that the Democrats may…
By Glynn Wilson – New York Times public opinion pundit Nate Cohn is at it again. Never forget, he was the public opinion analyst who famously said in 2016 of Hillary Clinton, “She’s got this.” He’s now writing an email newsletter called “The Tilt” for the Times, which went out by email Monday morning. The…
By Glynn Wilson – Joe Biden is back. With 75 days to go until the midterm elections, old Joe Biden is riding a blue wave back toward presidential popularity with independent, swing voters now that gas prices are going down and the people are finding out about the passage of a historic climate, health care…
By Glynn Wilson – ANALYSIS – Some important voters were paying attention to the Capitol Attack hearings this summer. And not just Democrats, paying rapt attention to every revelation and detail of Trump’s crimes against the country and the Constitution and sharing the stories on social media. Independent voters were watching too, and according to…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Where should a wary public turn for reliable information? Too bad it’s not working out to try turning the clock back to the 20th century to trust in newspapers and television news. The Gallup Poll became the gold standard for public opinion back then,…
By Glynn Wilson – The midterm elections are less than four months down the road from now, on November 8, and the mainstream media and big name pollsters are still bullish on the Republicans, while oddsmakers are still betting they will take back control of Congress in 2023. Why? How it could it be that…
By Glynn Wilson – This just in — and this is HUGE — as Trump and Bernie Sanders used to say. A huge majority, 74 percent of the American people now believe Donald Trump — the former president being investigated on a number of fronts most notably for inciting an insurrection and leading a seditious conspiracy…
By Glynn Wilson – While Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is having some trouble rolling over Ukraine on the battlefield and is now the most unpopular man in the world, he can at least have a shot of vodka and laugh at the chaos in the United States. American patriotism is taking a major hit on…
A majority of Americans also think the Select Committee has been fair – Staff Report – Nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. The same number…
