Showing posts with label popularity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label popularity. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

How Trump's popularity is faring among Americans on his inauguration - Washington Post

Americans are divided on a second Trump presidency. It's why The Washington Post is asking Americans in real time about their reactions to his inaugural address in collaboration with George Mason University's Schar School. Here is what they had to say…

 

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Popularity is optional as Republicans find ways to impose minority rule

Kurt Bardella, a Democratic strategist, noted that the government was founded with checks and balances to ensure that minority viewpoints could be heard. "But it was not the intent of the framers and founders to have those minority views imposed on the majority and certainly not to have those in the minority attack the rule of law to try to unravel majority rule, which is what's happening right now. It doesn't get more anti-democratic than expelling members from a legislative body for expressing themselves in a constitutionally protected way. 

"Republicans are inflicting injury and harm on democracy. It's a continuation of what they started to do with the big lie [that the 2020 election was stolen] … which paved the way for an insurrectionist attempt. We're seeing other extreme iterations of that play out in individual states. When you have a minority of people exercising power over the majority, that's authoritarianism."…

Saturday, December 10, 2022

The rise and fall of right-wing influencers — as tracked by TPUSA - The Washington Post

One thing that's interesting about the TPUSA lineups over time is that the vibe changes. In the early slates, you have a lot of appearances from people like Mark Levin and Glenn Beck, commentators not known for their appeal to younger people. Even Dinesh D'Souza, whose misleading movie about election fraud captivated Trumpland this year, fell out of popularity after the Trump era…


Sunday, August 29, 2021

How Science Explains Why Some Politicians Are Jerks - The Atlantic

Electoral politics is about popularity. So why does being mean seem to be popular?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/mean-politicians-science-cruelty/619840/


Saturday, May 29, 2021

Opinion | It might not look like it, but Biden is winning - The Washington Post

… Biden wants to lower the level of hostility, get whatever he can from wherever he can to fulfill his agenda and make sure everyone knows who is for the little guy. Judging by that standard, he's making solid progress...


Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Trump trails Democratic challengers among Catholic voters: poll | TheHill

President Trump trails several of his potential Democratic challengers in theoretical head-to-head matchups among Catholic voters, though his approval rating has ticked up slightly in the last year among the group, according to a poll released Monday.....
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign-polls/484394-trump-trails-democratic-challengers-among-catholic-voters-despite

ObamaCare favorability hits highest level: poll | TheHill

The Affordable Care Act’s favorability hit a record high in a new poll released Friday, highlighting the shifting political tones around the law. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds that 55 percent of the public views the health law favorably, the highest level since KFF began polling the question about 10 years ago. Just 37 percent said they view it unfavorably. ....
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/484010-obamacare-favorability-hits-highest-level-ever-in-new-poll








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