Majority of voters want Trump to address health care in State of the Union: poll
A majority of voters say they want President Trump to address health care-related issues in tonight's State of the Union address, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill. Sixty-four percent of respondents said they wanted to hear Trump discuss lowering the cost of health care and prescription drugs by passing legislation that targets global practices that levy higher prices for American consumers...
Mark Penn: Iowa caucus results chaos sends a loud and clear message (and it’s not just about the candidates)
Now we know what we have always known — the Iowa caucuses needs to be replaced with a primary and moved from first in the nation. First, in an era of PACS and social media the very concept of starting in a small test market no longer makes sense. These are national campaigns with televised debates and significant budgets; the early primaries should rotate so no region has an advantage and so that the voters in the early primaries are broadly representative of the Democratic primary electorate...
Americans are split on how they will vote in the 2020 presidential election, with only slightly more saying they plan to cast their ballots for the eventual Democratic nominee than for President Trump, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey released to The Hill...
Former Vice President Joe Biden is holding his lead in the crowded Democratic presidential primary roughly two months out from the first nominating contests, according to a new national survey from Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll released exclusively to The Hill...
In this era of intense partisan polarization, it might seem odd—even quaint—to speak of a “center” of American politics. But a soon-to-be-released survey from the New Center, a bipartisan policy institute I helped start, suggests this term applies, albeit incompletely, to today’s American public. Both political parties ignore this center at their peril...