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Independent, data-driven analysis of politics, public opinion polls, and elections. From author, journalist, and pollster G. Elliott Morris.
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By 30 points, voters oppose sending ICE agents to the polls (opens the original)
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This article reports new results from the September 2026 Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll, fielded Sept. 16–21 among 1,528 U.S. adults (margin of error ±2.6 points). You can find the poll topline and methodology document at gelliottmorris.com/poll.Every month, Strength In Numbers lets subscribers to this newsletter suggest questions for us to run in our recurring poll with Verasight. This month, several readers suggested we poll about the popularity of the federal government sending agents of
Iran, prices, ICE, and Epstein are the biggest stories of 2026 (opens the original)
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Only 13% of voters buy Trump’s promise to send $5k checks if GOP wins midterms (opens the original)
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This is my weekly Sunday roundup of new political data published over the last seven days. It is free to read, but if you want to support independent data-driven political journalism, become a paying subscriber and get additional data products and premium analysis at least once weekly.Upgrade to support Strength In NumbersHi everyone, Elliott here with a short programming note: I have opened up comments on the Sunday roundups so
58% say the U.S. is worse off under Trump vs Biden, 24% say it’s better (opens the original)
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“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” This old line from Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign for president encapsulates a surprising breadth of political science on American elections. Unpopular presidents and their parties tends to perform poorly; this is worse when the economy isn’t growing or inflation is high; and in midterms, there is a nearly unavoidable pattern by which voters en masse decide on rhe need to throw the bums out.In our September Strength In Numbers/
Is this what a "blue wave" feels like? (opens the original)
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On this week’s Strength In Numbers podcast, Elliott Morris and David Nir dig into the latest batch of good news for Democrats: an all-time low for Trump's approval rating in our monthly Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll; a record Democratic lead on the generic ballot; and a flurry of Senate polls showing the party competitive in states as red as Texas, Iowa, Ohio, and Kansas. We ask if this is what the political environment felt like in past wave elections, such as 2018—or even 2006.We also sha
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