A special Strength In Numbers/Verasight flash poll finds majorities oppose deploying ICE to airports, blame Trump for disruptions, and overwhelmingly oppose sending ground troops to Iran
We need to defeat the Trump part of the Trump/Netanyahu duo. Get out there on Saturday. Here are No Kings, No Tyrants, No Dictators, NO WAR protests from around the world that you can sign up for. Please share with family and friends inside and outside the US
YouGov’s poll was slightly net positive on ICE, but it looks like they phrased the question “…to help TSA”. That’s obviously a load of crap. They’re not helping in any way. Just goes to show the importance of the wording of the questions.
They can't help TSA, especially not when Trump gets to claim that he has solved the problem of them not getting paid by replacing them with people making many times their salary who are there doing nothing.
We need to defeat the Trump part of the Trump/Netanyahu duo. Get out there on Saturday. Here are No Kings, No Tyrants, No Dictators, NO WAR protests from around the world that you can sign up for. Please share with family and friends inside and outside the US
I’ll be happier if we see some further tangible manifestations of these results (e.g. 10 million-plus attending “No Kings” rallies over the weekend). Republicans elected officials need to be more afraid of us than they are of Trump.
I just asked Dan Pfeiffer to write about this in his Message Box Substack. He's got long experience as a Dem operative (Obama administration) and he's one of the principals on Pod Save America. My amateur take is that it has much to do with the failures of the Democratic Party apparatus at the national level and in some states (like mine: Massachusetts). What I hear from friends and contacts around the country is that the Democratic-voting base is energized but the party leadership often (to put it politely) sluggish.
The fact that our president is desperately trying to suppress the vote in the mid-terms with his SAVE act tells you everything you need to know about his own level of fear that he's going to lose the House and possibly even the Senate.
It's worth noting that Republican-run states were trying to suppress the vote before Trump came along. Hardcore Republican voters are older and tend to be dying off. Younger voters tend to skew Democratic. Time, in other words, isn't on their side.
Or on our president's either. You also may be giving him too much credit. He's not capable of coming up with anything as sophisticated, or as (relatively) coherent, as the SAVE Act. The people and organizations behind him definitely are. He's the means to their ends.
Consider that responses to "generic D polling" may focus more on impressions of the Democratic Party organizations rather than on Democratic candidates. Especially the "inside the Beltway" outfits like the DNC. My take as a local activist is that the Dem organizations representing Dem officeholders *outside* the Beltway, i.e., DAGA (attorneys general), DGA (governors), and DASS (secretaries of state), are more respected, at least by those who know about them.
Well as a non-professional in the polling arena, polling relationships to outcomes matters to me and my life. If the observation that the generic ballot seems less relevant to outcomes than polls on specific candidates or issues is objectionable then perhaps I should leave the site.
People are taking pictures of ICE agents at airports. An extraordinary amount of them look like they are 14 year olds.
We need to defeat the Trump part of the Trump/Netanyahu duo. Get out there on Saturday. Here are No Kings, No Tyrants, No Dictators, NO WAR protests from around the world that you can sign up for. Please share with family and friends inside and outside the US
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/no-kings-no-tyrants-no-dictators?r=f0qfn
Here is a new song that we should all be singing at our rallies on Saturday. Bette Midler's All You Fascists Bound to Lose.
https://youtu.be/U5VXwncNvTo?si=nqEITYquqPah1kh5
We can stand with this military wife too against what this regime is doing.
https://substack.com/@parislychee/note/c-221726913?r=f0qfn&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
YouGov’s poll was slightly net positive on ICE, but it looks like they phrased the question “…to help TSA”. That’s obviously a load of crap. They’re not helping in any way. Just goes to show the importance of the wording of the questions.
They can't help TSA, especially not when Trump gets to claim that he has solved the problem of them not getting paid by replacing them with people making many times their salary who are there doing nothing.
Maybe time to add impeachment to your monthly poll.
Past time. List all of Trump's hires please, including the ones he has given the heave ho to like Noem and Bovino.
Midterms coming up in 8 months, not 20 (thankfully!) Make sure to attend the No Kings rally near you and bring friends.
We need to defeat the Trump part of the Trump/Netanyahu duo. Get out there on Saturday. Here are No Kings, No Tyrants, No Dictators, NO WAR protests from around the world that you can sign up for. Please share with family and friends inside and outside the US
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/no-kings-no-tyrants-no-dictators?r=f0qfn
Here is a new song that we should all be singing at our rallies on Saturday. Bette Midler's All You Fascists Bound to Lose.
https://youtu.be/U5VXwncNvTo?si=nqEITYquqPah1kh5
We can stand with this military wife too against what this regime is doing.
https://substack.com/@parislychee/note/c-221726913?r=f0qfn&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
I’ll be happier if we see some further tangible manifestations of these results (e.g. 10 million-plus attending “No Kings” rallies over the weekend). Republicans elected officials need to be more afraid of us than they are of Trump.
I need to stop copy editing at 2am! That’s fixed now. My apologies for confusion
When might you write on the Democrats' failure to gain ground on the generic ballot despite all the Trump/GOP negativity you post about daily?
I just asked Dan Pfeiffer to write about this in his Message Box Substack. He's got long experience as a Dem operative (Obama administration) and he's one of the principals on Pod Save America. My amateur take is that it has much to do with the failures of the Democratic Party apparatus at the national level and in some states (like mine: Massachusetts). What I hear from friends and contacts around the country is that the Democratic-voting base is energized but the party leadership often (to put it politely) sluggish.
The fact that our president is desperately trying to suppress the vote in the mid-terms with his SAVE act tells you everything you need to know about his own level of fear that he's going to lose the House and possibly even the Senate.
It's worth noting that Republican-run states were trying to suppress the vote before Trump came along. Hardcore Republican voters are older and tend to be dying off. Younger voters tend to skew Democratic. Time, in other words, isn't on their side.
Or on our president's either. You also may be giving him too much credit. He's not capable of coming up with anything as sophisticated, or as (relatively) coherent, as the SAVE Act. The people and organizations behind him definitely are. He's the means to their ends.
It’s a good question. For now, this might be relevant: https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/when-midterm-polls-matter?utm_source=publication-search
And yet in every election in the last 14 months, D candidates have outperformed the generic D polling. Maybe it’s of limited utility.
Consider that responses to "generic D polling" may focus more on impressions of the Democratic Party organizations rather than on Democratic candidates. Especially the "inside the Beltway" outfits like the DNC. My take as a local activist is that the Dem organizations representing Dem officeholders *outside* the Beltway, i.e., DAGA (attorneys general), DGA (governors), and DASS (secretaries of state), are more respected, at least by those who know about them.
This is a polling site.
Well as a non-professional in the polling arena, polling relationships to outcomes matters to me and my life. If the observation that the generic ballot seems less relevant to outcomes than polls on specific candidates or issues is objectionable then perhaps I should leave the site.