Here’s what we know about the state of the presidential race. Related Harris says fear and division stirred by Trump is ‘not who we are’‘People are angry’: Trump rally’s racist comments on Puerto Rico reverberate among communityTracking swing state polls the day before the 2...
Rasmussen, one of the the most accurate pollsters that predicted 2016 election result, is today showing 52% of Americans approve of Trump as president, a number that is equal to or higher than Obama was at going into his Final term as president in 2012. The presidential approval rating is...
The last true blowout presidential win was Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election. The last 40 years have seen the most consistently competitive presidential races in living memory. That’s bad news for polls — which are blunt instruments rather than precision predictors. When a pollster randomly samp...
The Republican presidential debate held on Aug. 6, 2015, was, at that point, the highest-rated broadcast in Fox News history and, with nearly 24 million viewers, “among the most-viewed events in cable TV history," according to The New York Times. Those nearly 24 million viewers represente...
Also excludes presidential primary polls if their leader or runner-up dropped out before that primary was held, if any candidate receiving at least 15 percent in the poll dropped out or if any combination of candidates receiving at least 25 percent in the poll dropped out. Polls are weighted...
Some of the president's detractors have pointed out that polls in the last two presidential elections have underestimated support for Trump. They suggest polls are likely to do the same again this year. But polls have not traditionally overestimated the same party reliably over tim...
“she’s going to be presidential, and we know donald trump is going to do what donald trump does.” new poll shows how voters think trump’s age will affect his candidacy — 11:54 a.m. link copied by the associated press if he wins in november, trump, who’s 78, will be the ...
Seventeenth-century England and twenty-first century America are dissimilar in countless ways, but the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the Presidential election of 2024 have one crucial thing in common: the toxic social effect of equivocation.
When you hear the term bellwether, you might think about states in the presidential election that always vote with the White House winner.
to a new poll fromThe Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That is up from 39% at the beginning of the summer, before President Joe Biden’s poor performance in his debate against former President Donald Trump ultimately led him to drop out of the presidential race. ...