Rumors have swirled for months about who might challenge Michelle Wu in 2025, as she’s widely expected to run for reelection. Josh Kraft acknowledged in November he had been approached about running for mayor.
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Troubling signs for Biden in deep blue Massachusetts
President Biden is looking shaky in the Bay State, where just 47 percent now say they approve of the job he is doing as president — 46 percent say they disapprove.
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Words matter, particularly with poll questions
Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story gave the incorrect date for the initial poll on the so-called millionaire tax. The two polls were a year apart, not a month apart. A poll released in mid-January 2021 indicated 69 percent of registered voters in Massachusetts either strongly support or somewhat support the […]
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Words matter, particularly with poll questions
Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story gave the incorrect date for the initial poll on the so-called millionaire tax. The two polls were a year apart, not a month apart. A POLL released in mid-January 2021 indicated 69 percent of registered voters in Massachusetts either strongly support or somewhat support the constitutional […]
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Race in doubt, polling in the cross hairs
WE DON’T KNOW who will win the presidential election, but it seems clear who is getting tagged with a big loss: pollsters. “We still don’t know much about this election — except that the media and pollsters blew it again,” reads the headline over Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan’s early-morning dispatch posted at 5 […]
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Biden’s lead has supporters…worried
With the presidential election now eight days away, we have a pretty good sense of where things stand. Or do we? There’s been an avalanche of polling this cycle, and it all seems to point to a consistent lead for Joe Biden, but there’s been no end to the nail biting among campaigns and political […]
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Biden’s lead has supporters…worried
WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL election now eight days away, we have a pretty good sense of where things stand. Or do we? There’s been an avalanche of polling this cycle, and it all seems to point to a consistent lead for Joe Biden, but there’s been no end to the nail biting among campaigns and political […]
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Americans evenly divided on impeachment
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE TRUMP-UKRAINE story are coming at a breakneck pace, and so now are national polls asking about whether the President should be impeached. There are enough impeachment polls now that data-analysis website FiveThirtyEight has launched an impeachment tracker. Like the site’s Trump approval tracker, the impeachment tool weights each poll “accounting for each […]
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Seth Moulton and the shifting sands of polls
POLLING IS A SNAPSHOT in time. When times change, polls are a time capsule of the way it used to be. Perhaps no one better exemplifies the shifting sands of polls right now than Seth Moulton, who has led the apparently unsuccessful charge to block Nancy Pelosi from returning as Speaker of the House. The North […]
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Polling matters now more than ever
POLLING IS AN act of political resistance. It agglomerates the messy and inconvenient opinions of everyday people, kneads them into a whole, and forces them through the door into the air-conditioned echo chambers of political elites. This is not newly true, it’s just newly apparent. Right now, the polls are an awkward mess steaming on […]