Charles Franklin, Professor Emeritus at UW-Madison, offers this deep dive into party identification trends just for Political Wire members.
There has been a go
Gallup : “Last year, 42% of Americans, on average, identified as political independents, erasing the decline to 39% seen in the 2016 presidential election year. I
Washington Post: “Democrats have actually shifted more over the past two decades on many key social and philosophical issues, trending relatively quickly toward li
A new Bloomberg poll finds just 32% of Americans view the Republican Party favorably, the lowest level recorded since the poll’s inception.
The Democrati
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In the six weeks since their repudiation in the midterms, Democrats have see