The Gallup Poll has results that may seriously rattle everyone’s assumptions of American society and politics. From 1937, the first time they started asking about church membership, to 1999, about 70% of Americans told Gallup they belonged to a church, synagogue, or other house of worship. In the last 22 years the number has dropped by...
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Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech executives will testify before a US congressional committee tomorrow that the number of doses of their Covid-19 vaccines will increase sharply next month. Johnson and Johnson, who expects to get approval for its vaccine later this week, said it will have 20 million doses by March 31. http://www.msn.com/…...
The Washington Post is reporting that the Biden Administration is acquiring an additional 200 million vaccine doses bringing the total to 600 million, enough to vaccine 300 million. This was an option in the origin contracts with Pfizer and Moderna but, by itself, won’t immediately increase supplies though it should secure them...
Trump cannot still win simply because an alternate universe presents different electors while he litigates in this one. Only feeble stunts remain. Even the Trump DC hotel has conceded the election, freeing hotel rooms previously reserved for a Trump inaugural. Supporters of President Trump have made similar arguments that Pence, as...
Reminding myself that during nearly two decades of my life, racial segregation dominated some states, and that in 2020 we are still battling some of the same issues preventing people from voting. As if we didn’t need more reminders of systemic racism. People are going to need to be “carefully taught”,...
It is one of the GOP’s tried and untrue slanders, deployed every time a Republican President nominates an anti-abortion Catholic to the federal judiciary. The GOP and its amen corner claim Democrats are waging a “war on Catholics” and requiring a “religious test” for office. This week’s confirmation theater for...
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/… The year 2020 has been quite a year, and we are only about half way through. It is 110 days until the election and less than six weeks until the first absentee votes are cast. Trump is in trouble, but his polling isn’t getting worse as fast as the pandemic...
Don’t get me wrong. Joe Biden’s recent polling numbers have me giddier than Donald Trump’s Adderall dealer before a Southern superspreader rally. Biden is stomping the sugary piss out of Trump from his fucking basement. It’s a beautiful thing to behold, and I understand the impulse to get out over...
Harry Enten of CNN has an article on how history is against any dramatic rise in Trump’s approval ratings by election time. Presidential approval ratings, however, haven’t historically moved much from June of an election year to Election Day. It seems quite likely at this point that Trump’s approval rating...
On the one hand, this is a heartening development. On the other hand, grossly mishandling a pandemic, threatening to sic the military on your own citizens, and tear-gassing peaceful protesters for a sacrilegious photo op that makes you look like a constipated barn owl should put your approval rating in the low...
A Pew Research Survey released today show 65% of Americans think Trump acted too slowly in addressing the coronavirus outbreak, that 66% worry that restrictions will be lifted too quickly, and 73% think the situation will get worse. http://www.people-press.org/… Fewer than half of Americans say Trump portrays coronavirus situation ‘about...
Why would right-leaning independents cast votes for Democratic candidates, especially moderates. In what ways will the Trump speech tonight in NH appeal to tactical voting as it resembles other unhinged Trump speeches that have now featured less difference between those made in the WH East room or the SOTU. “Never Trump”...
So many believe that they are generally moderate or moderating because they cannot imagine themselves being so nonconforming that they cannot be sociable or civil in any situation. We are always conciliatory because we don’t really want to have someone tell us “DBAD”. We can support diversity up to and...
Laura Clawson is doing an excellent job of covering how bad the ABC moderators of this latest Demcoratic “debate” are performing. And you don’t have to be a progressive to see how awful the “There Will Be Blood!” inducing questions that sellouts like George Stephanopolous ask. He’s a shining example...
x 'All Roads With You Lead to Putin' – @SpeakerPelosi Thank you, Madam Speaker! – @KremlinAnnex âÂÂï¸Âðºð¸ pic.twitter.com/Oz5IxQu15W — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) October 17, 2019 x Spotted on the way from the #KremlinAnnex in Washington, DC! This was so beautiful! The truck drove around the Lafayette park where we protest....
http://www.people-press.org/… Pew Research Center is out with a poll showing 54% approve of the US House impeachment proceedings while 44% disapprove. In early September when less was known about Trump’s dealings, the public split about 50/50 on the question in the same poll. But about one-in-ten adults (9%) who had opposed...
The Trump meltdown seems not to have had much effect, other than enhancing Speaker Pelosi’s image with women as Gallup polls a majority in favor of impeachment and removal. So much Republican cowardice, especially in the US Senate, as #Trumpeachment continues. There could be an actual breaking point, even as history...
Late-term abortions are extremely rare and are never used for frivolous reasons. They’re often necessary to save the life of the mother or end a nonviable and/or dangerous pregnancy. This is only common sense, but if you listen to the propaganda of anti-choicers you might think that pregnant women wait until just...
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale sounded off about the history of impeachment today, insinuating that only democrats had availed themselves of this constitutional remedy, and further opining that kicking drumpf to the curb would, this time, just be a …coup. Princeton history prof Kevin Kruse (and some others) hastened to unburden him...
Apparently Trump’s absurd bleating is falling flat about how he’s against corruption in Ukraine in light of being caught trying to shake down that same country. Similar trending among Republicans, Independents, and Democrats in the WaPo poll. x Here's a really striking finding from the new Post poll: Since July,...
We did it! Signed, sealed and delivered, letters were received in these last weeks by more than 700 Bay Area residents informing them that … you no longer owe the balance on the debt referenced above to the above provider. You no longer have any obligation to pay this debt to...
Actually it is not really a mystery at all. There has been a thirty point or more swing in approval of Medicare for All in just a few months. That type of stuff really does not happen. How do you explain it. Well the journalists throw up their hands and...
Actually it is not really a mystery at all. There has been a thirty point or more swing in approval of Medicare for All in just a few months. That type of stuff really does not happen. How do you explain it. Well the journalists throw up their hands and...
Talk about the bigotry of low expectations. As news outlets gather ‘round and marvel at Donald Trump's slowly improving popularity, he's basically being rewarded for having posted truly middling polling numbers for the past two years. Virtually ignored in all the coverage is the fact that Trump is the only...
As the 2020 election season heats up, voters’ priorities are coming into sharper focus. As in years past, there is a great divergence in what each party ranks as its top issues. Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center found that Republicans identify terrorism, the economy, Social Security, immigration, and...
So earlier in the day I read this Vice article that seemed pretty doom-and-gloom. It’s about an analysis from the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, an Australian think tank. The gist? The paper argues that the potentially “extremely serious outcomes” of climate-related security threats are often far more probable than...
Why did it take this long to have a substantive discussion about our country’s (notoriously poorly understood) marginal tax rates? And why did it take a 29-year-old political neophyte to shatter the Overton window when it comes to our plutocrat-friendly tax system? Something’s happening, folks, and it’s seismic. The political...
There was a time not that long ago when “liberal” was widely considered a dirty word. Liberals themselves often avoided the term, and thus “progressive” was born. But people aren’t so shy these days about self-identifying as liberals, as you can see from this chart: x 35% of Americans identify...
A new Gallup poll last week once again confirmed that Americans are decidedly unimpressed by the GOP’s “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” passed in December. Coming just weeks after a Fox News survey found Obamacare enjoyed greater popularity than the Republican tax cuts, Gallup’s latest tally revealed that respondents continue...
Just in time for the Fourth of July, Gallup released the results of its latest survey of patriotism. Its primary finding? For the first time in Gallup's 18-year history asking U.S. adults how proud they are to be Americans, fewer than a majority say they are “extremely proud.” Currently, 47%...
Who knew that being respected and liked by absolutely nobody might affect your election chances? It was just a few months ago that Ted Cruz enjoyed an 18-point lead over his challenger, Beto O’Rourke. This was supposed to be a cakewalk. An incumbent Senator in a red state against a...
During the Obama administration, I really wished that pollsters would break out policy and approval polls by regions so that I could at least factor in (and discount) the reflexive opposition throughout the South and most Red States. Well, what is good for the goose . . . . Gallup...
From Gallup Around 30% are registered Democrats. Around 26% are registered Republicans. Around 43% identify as Independents, a record. A hint, many of this 43% is not in the center to be triangulated over. One of the reasons Congressional job disapproval stands at 77.5% [actual approval is at 14.3%] As...