Marianne Stewart

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    Vulnerable Americans rally around a president in a crisis. But polarization means this hasn’t happened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vulnerable Americans rally around a president in a crisis. But polarization means this hasn’t happened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Historically in times of crisis, presidents experience a polling boost as Americans ‘rally around the flag’, but this has not been the case during President Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. In new analysis, Harold Clarke, Marianne Stewart and Paul Whiteley find that the massive partisan and ideological differences in the electorate meant that the expected spike in Trump’s […]

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    The large gender gap in Trump’s support threatens his reelection. Here’s what’s driving it.

The large gender gap in Trump’s support threatens his reelection. Here’s what’s driving it.

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While women have tended to be more supportive of Democrats than Republicans in recent years, the gender gap in support for Donald Trump between men and women is exceptionally large, write Harold Clarke, Marianne Stewart, Paul Whiteley and Guy D. Whitten. They argue that a combination of poor economic factors, women’s party identification, and many women’s personal dislike for […]

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