Archive - Strength In Numbers

10 new charts that show how Americans feel about prices and health care

Plus: take the 2025 reader survey to steer coverage for the next year! Your weekly political data roundup for December 21, 2025

6 hrs ago • G. Elliott Morris

Voters blame Trump for their economic woes

In a televised speech, Trump tried to turn around his affordability numbers by drawing attention to policies voters disapprove of

Dec 19 • G. Elliott Morris

Add your own questions to our 2026 election polls!

Strength In Numbers is planning to go big on interactive polling and modeling in 2026. Help us decide what questions to track on a monthly basis

Dec 18 • G. Elliott Morris

The high cost of rolling over on immigration

What Matt Yglesias, Hakeem Jeffries, and Keir Starmer got wrong about the politics of immigration

Dec 16 • G. Elliott Morris

The politics of young people is the politics of instability

Plus: gerrymandering, 2026, news diets, and more on affordability. Your weekly political data roundup for December 14, 2025

Dec 14 • G. Elliott Morris

Affordability voters favor Democrats over Republicans for 2026 House midterms

Voters who say the economy or inflation are their #1 issue are D+12 in the generic ballot, and give Trump a net job approval rating of -20

Dec 12 • G. Elliott Morris

How cable news fueled the culture war and broke U.S. politics

News organizations, and not just Fox News, focus on inflammatory stories, polarizing voters and tilting political agendas to the right

Dec 9 • G. Elliott Morris

New Republican voters are much less MAGA. That will hurt the party in 2026.

Your weekly political data roundup for December 7, 2025

Dec 7 • G. Elliott Morris

How low could Trump's approval realistically go?

43% of Republicans say he isn't keeping his promises on the economy

Dec 5 • G. Elliott Morris

What the special election in Tennessee says about the 2026 midterms

Republicans held a Trump +22 seat — but by only 9 points. A swing half as large would give Democrats the U.S. House in 2026, and put the Senate clearly…

Dec 3 • G. Elliott Morris

Eight charts that explain why "affordability" is suddenly everywhere

All politics is affordability now

Dec 2 • G. Elliott Morris

November 2025

How can we be sure changes in polls reflect real changes in opinion?

A technical response to a comment on last Friday's chart about Democrats' generic ballot polling

Nov 28 • G. Elliott Morris

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