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Support for legal abortion at highest level in 2 years
45 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Planned Parenthood, according to a recent poll. Photo by Mike Blake/ReutersWASHINGTON — Support for legal abortion in the U.S. has edged up to its...
View ArticleHas There Been A Bernie Sanders Blackout?
In our ongoing collaboration with FiveThirtyEight.com, we've been considering whether media coverage drives polls or whether polls (and general interest) drive media coverage. According to Democratic...
View ArticleVoters, What Makes You Anxious?
Polls and other research suggest a growing anxiety about fundamental things: security, economic prospects, and even identity.As part of a project with NPR - which is taking a closer look at the...
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Did the Iowa Caucus Results Discredit Polls?
Two questions to examine here: how immoderate is Marco Rubio's senate record? And, did the results in Iowa discredit polling?Harry Enten, senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight, said...
View ArticleClinton solidifies lead with wins in 7 states
MIAMI — Hillary Clinton widened her lead over Democratic rival Bernie Sanders as minority voters helped her secure key victories in seven states in the Super Tuesday contests. Sanders won four states...
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Clinton, Trump claim big Super Tuesday victories
Supporters of Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton cheer as they await her arrival at a Super Tuesday primary night party in Miami, Florida on March 1, 2016. Photo by Jonathan...
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Sanders upsets Clinton in Michigan; Trump keeps winning
Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally in Miami Tuesday. Sanders won the Michigan primary by a narrow margin against rival Hillary Clinton. Photo by Carlo Allegri/ReutersLANSING, Mich. — Bernie...
View ArticleProblematic Polls, Race on the Job, Neighbors to the North
Coming up on today's show:We begin with a look at the questionable methodology of election polling, which often excludes certain populations, and how the results misinform the public. Michael Ramlet,...
View ArticleThe Hard Truth About Election Polls
Bernie Sanders' unexpected win in the Michigan Democratic primary this week has made pollsters take a second look at the electorate they are supposed to be measuring. And with big states like Ohio and...
View ArticleNew York Officials See Spike in Problems at the Polls
The office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said it is getting hundreds more reports than usual about problems at polling sites.As of Tuesday evening, the Attorney General's hotline...
View ArticleDe Blasio Makes $20 Million Available to BOE to Implement Reforms
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday he'll make close to $20 million in "incentive funding" available to the City Board of Elections — if the agency agrees to implement a series of reforms he's...
View ArticleAddicted to Approval
Faith Salie, contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning, a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!, host of the PBS show "Science Goes To The Movies," and author of Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring...
View ArticleClinton Could Clinch in New Jersey
Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, talks about national politics with an eye on New Jersey voters.First, let's clear up an important misconception: if you are an...
View ArticleISIS Attacks During Ramadan; The History of Our Highest Court; Juno Swings By...
Coming up on today's show:ISIS has carried out a number of deadly attacks this Ramadan, killing more than 200 people in Baghdad, 44 in Istanbul, and 23 in Dhaka. Ben Hubbard from The New York Times...
View ArticleNate Silver's 2016 Presidential Election Forecast
Nate Silver, a statistician and the founder and editor in chief of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight, discusses his first forecast for the 2016 presidential election.Trump chances of Making America Great Again...
View ArticleAt the RNC, The Color of the Revolution Was Day-Glo Green
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.It was a Republican National Convention (RNC) for the ages — an event that included plagiarism, humiliation from former candidates, references to...
View ArticlePolling & Democracy: An Uneasy Relationship
Back in December, with our election season partners, FiveThirtyEight, we issued a Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Election Polls Edition. It was directed towards primary election coverage, but some...
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Brooks and Dionne on the GOP’s dilemma and the role of ‘common decency’ in...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And now back to the world of politics, and to the analysis of Brooks and Dionne. That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post...
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New poll numbers show tightening presidential race, but Clinton has easier path
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now we return to politics and a tightening race for president, both across the nation and in key battleground states.New polls indicate Hillary Clinton...
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Shields and Brooks on high stakes for debate moderators, a dead heat in the...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But, first: the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That’s syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.Welcome to you both....
View Article52 Days Until the Election: What's Up With The Polls?
Click on the 'Listen' button to hear the interview.“This was an ailment that many people just power through and that's what I thought I'd do as well. I didn't want to stop. I didn't want to quit...
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Shields and Brooks on Trump’s ‘birther’ lie, Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ effect
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Next, to the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That’s syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.Welcome back,...
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Gary Johnson on the rules keeping him off the debate stage
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Only five days until the first presidential debate, but Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson won’t be on that stage, after saying it was his only path to...
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Ryan won’t campaign for Trump; Clinton widens lead in polls
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Twenty-nine days to go until the election, it’s the day after debate number two, and Donald Trump is scrambling to save his presidential bid.But the...
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Obama calls out Trump on rigged election claims
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: It’s three weeks to go until Election Day, just 24 hours until the last presidential debate, and charges of vote fraud and media bias are swirling.Today,...
View Article30 Issues | Week 28 Recap: Whose Vote Will Count in 2016?
Catch up on what we learned during Week 28 of #30 Issues...Hit "play" above to hear the many ways in which voters are disenfranchised in America, and we review the history.You'll hear:A History of...
View ArticleThe Myth of Voter Fraud
Donald Trump is only the latest in a line of American politicians to claim that an election can be stolen, specifically by voters who commit fraud at the polls. But despite the depictions of voters...
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Trump’s ‘nasty woman’ remark adds to woes with female voters
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks as Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens during their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate at UNLV in Las...
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Trump team says ‘we are behind’ but can still win the race
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the third and final debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (not pictured) at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Joe...
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How Clinton and Trump are strategizing with two weeks to go
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: With just over two weeks until Election Day, we turn now to our Politics Monday duo, Tamara Keith of NPR and Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report. She...
View ArticleForecasting the Future, from Politics to Global Events
Despite all of their experience, experts specializing in predicting future trends and events often do quite poorly... about as well as random guessing. But some with little or no expertise do extremely...
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What pollsters are predicting for Election Day
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: We dig in now to the numbers in the race for the White House, with most national and battleground state polls showing Hillary Clinton ahead.As the number...
View ArticleDevelopments in Garner Case; Ta-Nehisi Coates; (Unofficial) Early Voting...
Coming up on today's show:Alan Feuer, New York Times metro desk reporter, discusses how the inquiry into civil rights violations against the NYPD officer responsible for Eric Garner’s death has caused...
View ArticleAn (Unofficial) Early Voting Poll
Steve Shepard, chief polling analyst at POLITICO, talks about early voting statistics and listeners who have already cast their ballots call in.
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How the Clinton email probe seems to be motivating voters
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And with that, we turn to Politics Monday.Joining me are Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report, and from The New York Times, Yamiche Alcindor. Tamara...
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Shields and Brooks on rancor in the electorate and the future of the Supreme...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now to the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That is syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.So, gentlemen, this is the...
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4 days before the election, a look at campaign closing strategies
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: With 72 hours to go, the presidential candidates are making their final pitch to voters this weekend.To size up the race, I’m joined by two campaign...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About The Final Election Poll Numbers
Last month, Sam Wang, a data analyst and founder of the Princeton Election Consortium, tweeted that if Donald Trump wins more than 240 electoral votes, he'd eat a bug. Is he still that confident? The...
View ArticleNate Silver Check-In on Election Eve
Nate Silver, founder and editor-in-chief of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight, discusses the state of the presidential race with one day before voters head to the polls. According to the latest analysis, Silver...
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The states you should be watching tonight
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And now for our election eve edition of Politics Monday.We’re joined by Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report, Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of...
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Trump and Clinton bombard battleground states in final push
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: This time, the cliche fits: It’s down to the wire, and Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are campaigning late into the night.Their final blitz came as a...
View ArticleA Post-Election Note to You
We're all processing this election together. We want to create a nurturing, constructive space to do that. Please take a minute and listen to Manoush's short audio message to you, dear listener. We...
View ArticleThe Morning After the Election: Gail Collins Talks Results; Analyzing the...
On today's show you'll hear:Gail Collins, New York Times op-ed columnist and the author of As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda (Liveright, 2013), talks about the...
View ArticleThe GOP Pollster Who Predicted Trump's Win
Many last minute election and exit polls, from Politico's National Tracking Poll to Fox News, showed a tie race or predicted Democrat Hillary Clinton would be the nation's next President. They were...
View ArticleHow Did the Polls Get it So Wrong?
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.After last night's results, all eyes are on the pollsters, many of which predicted Hillary Clinton with a solid win over Donald Trump. The New...
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How the mainstream media missed Trump’s momentum
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: In the wake of last night’s huge upset, there are many questions about what the pollsters, the pundits and many journalists may have missed.To tackle...
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Column: The demise of political polling has been greatly exaggerated
Polls are best guesses, votes are real. Photo by Jim Young/REUTERSThe first words anyone spoke to me once the election results came in were “What went wrong?” To which I replied, “I was tired and had...
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How did the pollsters get Trump’s win so wrong? They didn’t, says economist...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at his election night rally in Manhattan, New York, on Nov. 9, 2016. Photo by Carlo Allegri/ReutersEditor’s Note: How did the pollsters get it so wrong? It’s a...
View ArticleWhy the Media Missed a Close Race
Nate Silver, founder and editor-in-chief of ESPN's data journalism site FiveThirtyEight, looks back at what journalists — including the data crunchers at FiveThirtyEight and campaign reporters at major...
View ArticleIf Disaster Comes, Could You Weather the Storm?
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Harvey made landfall as a Hurricane last Friday and left a trail of devastation across Texas and the Gulf Coast. It’s being called a "1,000 year...
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