The Crosstab Weekly Newsletter 📊 March 3, 2019

How high does Trump's approval need to be for him to win re-election? + Fox News and MSNBC in 2018 and the unimportance of (most) issue positions to voters

Welcome! I’m G. Elliott Morris, data journalist for The Economist and blogger of polls, elections, and political science. Happy Sunday! Here’s my weekly newsletter with links to what I’ve been reading and writing that puts the news in context with public opinion polls, political science, other data (some “big,” some small) and looks briefly at the week ahead. Let’s jump right in! Feedback? Drop me a line or just respond to this email. 

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