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4 days ago | 
forbes.com | Karlyn Bowman
In April, the Census released its report on registration and voting in the 2024 election. The data make it possible to look at many voter characteristics such as race and ethnicity, gender, age, family income, and much more. The trend data on voters is valuable, but I’m especially interested in a different question the Census includes in this series. The Census also asks people who are registered but didn’t vote why they didn’t do so.
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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Matthew Continetti |Danielle Pletka |Karlyn Bowman |Ramesh Ponnuru
Op-Ed The Wisdom of The Donald Article WTH: MAGA Goes to College Op-Ed Trump’s 100 Days of Revolution Op-Ed The Growing Partisan Divide on Vaccines Op-Ed Will Trump’s Tariffs Blow Up the Global MAGA Movement? Op-Ed Republicans Need a Backup Plan on Trump’s Tax Cuts Op-Ed Master of the House Op-Ed Trump Is the Policy Op-Ed Support for Larger Child Tax Credit Spreads to Senate GOP Post Public Support of Health Insurance Enrollment Op-Ed Trump Isn’t the First President to Blow Up the Trading...
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1 week ago | 
forbes.com | Karlyn Bowman
After President Trump’s State of the Union speech, Politico ran a story about profanity-laced reactions to the speech from some Democrats. According to the piece, firebrand Texan Jasmine Crockett let it rip with the f-word, but so, too, did a handful of her Democratic colleagues. Last week The Hill followed up with a story about Democratic hopefuls embracing the F-bomb on the campaign trail.
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1 week ago | 
aei.org | Karlyn Bowman |Danielle Pletka |Thomas Miller |Daniel Cox
Op-Ed Polls on Profanity in Politics Op-Ed Chaotic Times: Opinion Snapshots from 1980, 1987, 2008 and Today Op-Ed Where Does Trump Fit in the Presidential Pantheon?
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2 weeks ago | 
forbes.com | Karlyn Bowman
With the increase in measles cases and substantial public awareness of the situation, several new polls have explored attitudes about vaccines. The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and YouGov released polls in April, building on data Gallup and others have collected over a long period of time. Only 6% in the KFF poll had not heard about the increase measles cases in recent years, while 56% had.
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3 weeks ago | 
forbes.com | Karlyn Bowman
How does the public’s perception of today’s economic turbulence compare to the past? Reviewing polls from 1979-1980, 1987, 2008-2009 and comparing them to today’s polls provides some early answers. Not only is public interest high, as it was in previous periods of uncertainty, but so too is the public’s sense of leadership weakness and pessimism about their prospects and the country’s. None of this is good news for the Trump administration.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Karlyn Bowman
Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision returned abortion to the states, the issue has played a significant role in elections across the country with the pro-choice side winning most of them. In the April 1 Wisconsin Supreme Court contest, abortion was front and center in the candidates’ only debate. Before Elon Musk inserted himself into the contest, several analysts suggested that Susan Crawford, who ran on safeguarding abortion, could have won the race on that issue alone.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Karlyn Bowman
To the old adage “nothing in the world is certain, but death and taxes” I would add: Nothing in the world is certain but, death and taxes and a new round of polls about taxes around tax time. Have we learned anything new this year? What do the new polls tell us about extending the 2017 tax cuts? Fox News recently updated several questions on taxes. When registered voters were asked what bothers them most about federal income taxes, the top response at 45 percent was rich people not paying enough.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Karlyn Bowman
To the old adage “nothing in the world is certain, but death and taxes” I would add: Nothing in the world is certain but, death and taxes and a new round of polls about taxes around tax time. Have we learned anything new this year? What do the new polls tell us about extending the 2017 tax cuts? Fox News recently updated several questions on taxes. When registered voters were asked what bothers them most about federal income taxes, the top response at 45% was rich people not paying enough.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Karlyn Bowman
In the new Marquette University Law School national poll released this week, 42% said things in the country were generally going in the right direction. This response has doubled since October last year. In the late March Harvard Center for American Politics/Harris poll, 41% of registered voters gave the right track response, up from 20% in November. In the new AP/National Opinion Research Center poll, the right track response is up 11 points since January.
