Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Today’s theme song: End credits from “The Simpsons” (Renaissance version) Poll of the week Jeff Flake is still in big trouble. The latest survey from Democratic pollster GBA Strategies gives Kelli Ward (Flake’s opponent in Arizona’s GOP Senate primary) a 58 percent to 31 percent advantage over Flake. […]
This is the second edition of our new weekly polling roundup. And we have a name! It’s … Pollapalooza! Shoutout to @nealcincinatti for coming up with it. Theme song of the week: Kelsey Grammer sings “Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs.” Trump’s job approval rating President Trump’s job approval ratings went up slightly over the past […]
Welcome to a new weekly column — Name TBD — about polls and politics. We’ll follow President Trump’s approval rating and the generic ballot, and provide a far-ranging round-up of the most interesting surveys released over the past week. (Also, a “TV theme song of the week.” Just because.) I hope you enjoy it, but […]
With catastrophic flooding in Texas, President Trump is facing the biggest domestic crisis of his presidency so far. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast talks about the political challenges that natural disasters can pose to local officials, governors and presidents. Plus, as Trump hovers around his all-time lowest job approval rating, Nate Silver discusses the kinds of […]
It still isn’t entirely clear how much President Trump’s reaction to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — which was criticized by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers after he blamed “many sides” for the violence there — has affected his job approval rating. As of Wednesday evening, Trump’s approval rating was 36.9 percent, according […]