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Americans largely support assistance to those facing foreclosure on their homes, but also display conspicuous signs of ambivalence. Several polls, asking the question in different ways, find support ranging from…

Last week, my friend and distinguished sparring partner in these pages, David Hill, commented on the American Association of Public Opinion Research’s (AAPOR) report on what went wrong with the…

By the time you’re reading this, either Democrats are crowing about winning a special election in a congressional district that voted twice for George Bush and where registered Republicans outnumber…

George W. Bush was undone in the first instance by his misguided pursuit of a war the American people came to believe was a serious mistake, while the economy delivered…

Beyond the schadenfreude generated by their recent encounter, valuable lessons in public relations can be extracted from the battle between Jon Stewart (whom I watch religiously) and Jim Cramer (whom…

In 1938, Stalin’s secret police arrested my great-aunt, who was within weeks of being deported to Siberia, where she and her children would have been lost forever. Fortunately, her husband…

Polling around the recently signed economic recovery bill affords an opportunity to tease out some lessons about public opinion:Partisanship Reigns (Or, Do Leaders Lead?) – Regular readers will not be…

Leaderless, rudderless, bereft of a message or ideas and in defiance of common sense, Republicans continue to march into hell for a cause that is far from heavenly, diminishing further…

Bipartisanship has been used to describe so many things, it now means almost nothing. If bipartisanship means soliciting ideas from the opposition party, President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)…

Which is it? Does Sen. Susan Collins hate kids or love property taxes? I know we are supposed to be post-partisan, lavishing praise on Sen. Collins (Maine) for breaking ranks…