Kevin Robillard
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Incredible world cloud results from this poll: The old vs. the unknown.
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Incredible world cloud results from this poll: The old vs. the unknown.
New: The most surprising part of the 2025 elections, and one with major implications for 2026, is how the GOP candidates have barely even tried to distance themselves from an increasingly unpopular Trump.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New: The most surprising part of the 2025 elections, and one with major implications for 2026, is how the GOP candidates have barely even tried to distance themselves from an increasingly unpopular Trump.
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The strategy is also inherently causing conflicts with the party's insurgents, who want a clean break from unpopular party leadership + young, media-savvy candidates.
Platner is probably the candidate who best embodies the insurgency at the moment.
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Platner is probably the candidate who best embodies the insurgency at the moment.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The strategy is also inherently causing conflicts with the party's insurgents, who want a clean break from unpopular party leadership + young, media-savvy candidates.
Platner is probably the candidate who best embodies the insurgency at the moment.
www.huffpost.com/entry/the-de...
Platner is probably the candidate who best embodies the insurgency at the moment.
www.huffpost.com/entry/the-de...
Why are Senate Democrats recruiting 77-year-old Janet Mills? Because they're focused proven vote-winners: Everyone likes that they recruited Cooper + Brown.
But the same philosophy is leading them to back Mills, Stevens and Turek, which is causing grumbling.
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But the same philosophy is leading them to back Mills, Stevens and Turek, which is causing grumbling.
www.huffpost.com/entry/the-de...
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Why are Senate Democrats recruiting 77-year-old Janet Mills? Because they're focused proven vote-winners: Everyone likes that they recruited Cooper + Brown.
But the same philosophy is leading them to back Mills, Stevens and Turek, which is causing grumbling.
www.huffpost.com/entry/the-de...
But the same philosophy is leading them to back Mills, Stevens and Turek, which is causing grumbling.
www.huffpost.com/entry/the-de...
This is a noteworthy escalation from Sanders, who actually very rarely gets crosswise with the DSCC -- the only time he has endorsed against the DSCC's pick in his career was in Kentucky in 2020.
This cycle, he's backing both Platner + El-Sayed.
This cycle, he's backing both Platner + El-Sayed.
October 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is a noteworthy escalation from Sanders, who actually very rarely gets crosswise with the DSCC -- the only time he has endorsed against the DSCC's pick in his career was in Kentucky in 2020.
This cycle, he's backing both Platner + El-Sayed.
This cycle, he's backing both Platner + El-Sayed.
New Pew Research Center data:
66% say Trump has improperly used his office to punish people
62% say he's improperly encouraged fed'l investigation of his opponents
61% say he's improperly used his office to enrich himself.
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66% say Trump has improperly used his office to punish people
62% say he's improperly encouraged fed'l investigation of his opponents
61% say he's improperly used his office to enrich himself.
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October 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
New Pew Research Center data:
66% say Trump has improperly used his office to punish people
62% say he's improperly encouraged fed'l investigation of his opponents
61% say he's improperly used his office to enrich himself.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
66% say Trump has improperly used his office to punish people
62% say he's improperly encouraged fed'l investigation of his opponents
61% say he's improperly used his office to enrich himself.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Polis vs. Whitmer in the most explicit Democrat vs. Democrat argument we've seen so far on tariffs.
April 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Polis vs. Whitmer in the most explicit Democrat vs. Democrat argument we've seen so far on tariffs.
Dow down 2,000 points, proving this has all been a master plan by Trump NEC Director Kevin Hassett to make his book relevant again.
April 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Dow down 2,000 points, proving this has all been a master plan by Trump NEC Director Kevin Hassett to make his book relevant again.
Top seven donors in the 2024 election were all solidly Republican, gave campaigns and super PACs a combined $1 billion.
Graph from @opensecrets.org: www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/03...
Graph from @opensecrets.org: www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/03...
March 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Top seven donors in the 2024 election were all solidly Republican, gave campaigns and super PACs a combined $1 billion.
Graph from @opensecrets.org: www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/03...
Graph from @opensecrets.org: www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/03...
This was the Democrat's closing message in a special election upset in PA tonight: "On Tuesday, you’ll get to make the choice between more Musk, or Lancaster values."
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March 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
This was the Democrat's closing message in a special election upset in PA tonight: "On Tuesday, you’ll get to make the choice between more Musk, or Lancaster values."
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Related: Voters’ top four concerns about Elon Musk all have to do with Social Security, per Democratic polling outfit Blueprint.
March 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Related: Voters’ top four concerns about Elon Musk all have to do with Social Security, per Democratic polling outfit Blueprint.
For example, these are from a former top Biden policy advisor and a former DSCC executive director. Neither could remotely be called a progressive bomb thrower.
March 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
For example, these are from a former top Biden policy advisor and a former DSCC executive director. Neither could remotely be called a progressive bomb thrower.
Quinnipiac out with some of the first polling I've seen on a potential shutdown:
31% would blame Congressional Republicans
32% would blame Congressional Democrats
22% would blame President Trump
15% not sure
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31% would blame Congressional Republicans
32% would blame Congressional Democrats
22% would blame President Trump
15% not sure
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
March 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Quinnipiac out with some of the first polling I've seen on a potential shutdown:
31% would blame Congressional Republicans
32% would blame Congressional Democrats
22% would blame President Trump
15% not sure
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
31% would blame Congressional Republicans
32% would blame Congressional Democrats
22% would blame President Trump
15% not sure
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
One thing worth watching: How Trump’s relative weaknesses shape the nature of the resistance to him. Many things people now knock Dems for focusing on in Trump 1.0 — immigration, racism — were his major weak points then. For right now, it’s the economy.
March 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
One thing worth watching: How Trump’s relative weaknesses shape the nature of the resistance to him. Many things people now knock Dems for focusing on in Trump 1.0 — immigration, racism — were his major weak points then. For right now, it’s the economy.
reality show host president, podcast host vice president
February 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
reality show host president, podcast host vice president
Incredible survey here, conducted by one of Trump’s pollsters for an Elon-backed group, showing extending health care subsidies is far more popular with swing-district voters than extending the Trump tax cuts.
February 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Incredible survey here, conducted by one of Trump’s pollsters for an Elon-backed group, showing extending health care subsidies is far more popular with swing-district voters than extending the Trump tax cuts.
Innovative strategy from a pro-Ukraine Republican congressman here, arguing abandoning Ukraine would be DEI.
February 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Innovative strategy from a pro-Ukraine Republican congressman here, arguing abandoning Ukraine would be DEI.
FTC/DOJ keeping the Biden-era merger guidelines is a win for the small handful of Dems/progressives who insisted the Trump admin was sincere about antitrust enforcement.
But we’re also only less than a month into the admin, so...
But we’re also only less than a month into the admin, so...
February 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
FTC/DOJ keeping the Biden-era merger guidelines is a win for the small handful of Dems/progressives who insisted the Trump admin was sincere about antitrust enforcement.
But we’re also only less than a month into the admin, so...
But we’re also only less than a month into the admin, so...
Two recent poll findings show the public would clearly start on the side of the judiciary in a fight w/ Trump.
Pew: Just 33% of the country thinks Trump shouldn’t have to “worry so much” about Congress/the courts.
Marquette: 83% say the president has to follow a SCOTUS ruling.
Pew: Just 33% of the country thinks Trump shouldn’t have to “worry so much” about Congress/the courts.
Marquette: 83% say the president has to follow a SCOTUS ruling.
February 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Two recent poll findings show the public would clearly start on the side of the judiciary in a fight w/ Trump.
Pew: Just 33% of the country thinks Trump shouldn’t have to “worry so much” about Congress/the courts.
Marquette: 83% say the president has to follow a SCOTUS ruling.
Pew: Just 33% of the country thinks Trump shouldn’t have to “worry so much” about Congress/the courts.
Marquette: 83% say the president has to follow a SCOTUS ruling.
New Gallup poll: 45% plurality of Dems/Dem-leaning indys want the party to become more moderate, compared to just 22% who want it to stay the same and 29% who want it to become more liberal.
Big shift from 2021.
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Big shift from 2021.
news.gallup.com/poll/656636/...
February 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
New Gallup poll: 45% plurality of Dems/Dem-leaning indys want the party to become more moderate, compared to just 22% who want it to stay the same and 29% who want it to become more liberal.
Big shift from 2021.
news.gallup.com/poll/656636/...
Big shift from 2021.
news.gallup.com/poll/656636/...
January 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Congress, after negotiating a bipartisan deal because they couldn’t pass a clean CR, only to have Musk + Trump blow up said deal, have their preferred option fail, and then ultimately getting ready to pass a clean CR in the end anyway.
December 20, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Congress, after negotiating a bipartisan deal because they couldn’t pass a clean CR, only to have Musk + Trump blow up said deal, have their preferred option fail, and then ultimately getting ready to pass a clean CR in the end anyway.
Emerging Democratic answer to Trump/Rs on debt ceiling seems to be: We would considering voting to eliminate it entirely, but not to lift it for two years to help you pass tax cuts.
The Q is whether Trump can possibly sell the Freedom Caucus on eliminating the debt ceiling entirely.
The Q is whether Trump can possibly sell the Freedom Caucus on eliminating the debt ceiling entirely.
December 19, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Emerging Democratic answer to Trump/Rs on debt ceiling seems to be: We would considering voting to eliminate it entirely, but not to lift it for two years to help you pass tax cuts.
The Q is whether Trump can possibly sell the Freedom Caucus on eliminating the debt ceiling entirely.
The Q is whether Trump can possibly sell the Freedom Caucus on eliminating the debt ceiling entirely.