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May 17, 2013 9:17 AM Presidential Approval Isn't Stuck At Midrange

Ezra Klein poses a hypothesis I've heard a few times before at the end of a nice post earlier this week: Tucked inside Abramowitz’s take is an interesting structural prediction about American politics: As party polarization increases and the persuadable...

By Jonathan Bernstein

May 14, 2013 8:07 AM The European Union is Getting More Unpopular with Europeans

Pew has a very interesting new survey out on attitudes towards the European Union among citizens of eight EU countries. Here are a just a few of the more interesting results.First, attitudes towards the EU are getting worse. While there...

By Joshua Tucker

April 22, 2013 6:21 PM Americans Really Don’t Care About the Environment

Today is Earth Day. Pew Research is therefore eager to publicize a poll indicating that 52 percent of Americans think protecting the environment should be “a top priority for the president and Congress in 2013.” Sounds great, right? Bring on...

By Daniel Luzer

April 03, 2013 10:19 AM How Much Do Politicians Really Care About Public Opinion?

I'm not gong to get full-on cranky at Robert Reich's column today...only somewhat cranky. Reich's complaint is that politicians are happy to follow public opinion when it comes to marriage equality, guns, and immigration...but on raising taxes for rich people...

By Jonathan Bernstein

March 29, 2013 11:30 AM The Real Reason Public Opinion Doesn't Work

Jonathan Chait gets it half-right: At his remarks today touting support for background checks on guns, President Obama said, "Nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change." Actually, since background checks command 90 percent in the polls...

By Jonathan Bernstein