Cliff’s Take
Read this week’s analysis and observations on public opinion trends exploring topline trends to lay out the forces that are really shaping our society and our future.
Read this week’s analysis and observations on public opinion trends from pollster and social scientist President of Ipsos Public Affairs, US, Cliff Young. Each week Cliff will look underneath topline trends to lay out the forces that are really shaping our society and our future.
Latest editions:
July 30: A Profile in Intractability
July 23: Regression?
July 16: Culture wars come out of hibernation
July 9: Law and Order, With Caveats
July 2: Celebrating America, Faultlines Notwithstanding
June 25: Is Biden losing steam?
June 11: Lurching Towards Normalization
June 4: Not So Hesitant Summer
May 28: Pausing To Reflect
May 21: American Alienation
May 14: The Great Unmasking
May 7: Can Reality Live Up To Expectations?
April 30: Big Government Forever?
April 23: What The Chauvin Trial Verdict Tells Us
April 16: Cautiously Impatient
April 9: Our National Dissonance
April 2: Advancing A Post-COVID Agenda
March 26: Guns, Immigration and Race—Have We Come Full Circle?
March 19: Cliff’s Take: Vaccine Skepticism Clouds New Optimism
March 12: Cliff’s Take: Americans Welcome Federal Support
March 5: Cliff’s Take: What We Are Hoping For Post-COVID
February 26: Cliff’s Take: Getting Our Bearings
February 19: Cliff’s Take: Some Americans Are Ready To Dive Back In
February 12: Cliff’s Take: Is Biden’s House Built on Solid Ground?
February 5: Cliff’s Take: Americans In Wait And See Mode
January 29: Cliff’s Take: Rage Against The Machine?
January 22: Cliff’s Take: Will Biden’s Call To Unity Resonate?
January 15: Cliff’s Take: Inauguration Turmoil Underlines Rifts In Our National Fabric
January 8: Cliff’s Take: The Wheels Fall Off The Trump Bandwagon
December 31: Cliff’s Take: Farewell to 2020
December 18: Cliff’s Take: American Disenchantment
December 11: Cliff’s Take: New Ambivalence About American Greatness
December 4: Cliff’s Take: Americans Adapt For Gloomy Winter Ahead
November 25: Our First – And Hopefully Last – COVID Thanksgiving
November 20: Cliff’s Take: Nation Still Divided On Who Won The Election
November 13: Cliff’s Take: Nation Begins To Move Forward
October 30: Cliff’s Take: Buckle Up
October 23: Cliff’s Take: Coronavirus Denial Still Isn't A Winning Strategy
October 16: Cliff’s Take: Down to the Wire
October 9: Cliff’s Take: Coronavirus as King Maker
October 2: Cliff’s Take: Could Trump’s Positive Coronavirus Test Influence The Race?
September 25: Cliff’s Take: Contradictory Signals
September 18: Cliff’s Take: Politicizing Science And Public Health A Dangerous Course
September 11: Cliff’s Take: Coronavirus A Dividing Line
September 4: Cliff’s Take: The Battle for the Soul of America
August 28: Cliff’s Take: Chasm Between Black and White America
August 21: Cliff’s Take: Will Americans Accept the Outcome in 2020?
August 14: Cliff’s Take: Beware of Horse Race Polls
August 7: Cliff’s Take: Willing Away The Virus
July 31: Cliff’s Take: Trump’s Desperation Takes Dark Turn
July 24: Cliff’s Take: Can Trump Bend Our Reality?
July 17: Cliff's Take: Americans See Risk in Schools Reopening
July 10: Cliff’s Take: The Great Unraveling
June 26: Cliff’s Take: It All Goes South for Trump
June 19: COVID-19 Takes Its Toll on Mental Health
June 12: Cliff’s Take: Mass Protest Against Inequality Changes Political Calculus
June 5: Cliff’s Take: Injustice Is Real, But Not All Americans Willing to See It
May 29: Cliff’s Take: Returning to Normal Won’t Be So Simple
May 22: Cliff’s Take: Social Distancing No Longer the Name of the Game
May 15: Cliff’s Take: Still Fearful, Americans Begin to Reemerge
May 8: Cliff’s Take: America’s Parallel Realities Become More Entrenched
May 1: Cliff’s Take: Jobs Supplant Health as Americans’ Top Concern
April 24: Cliff’s Take: To Ease Up or Not to Ease Up?
April 17: Cliff’s Take: America Settles in For the Long Haul
April 10: Cliff’s Take: Adjusted to Our New COVID-19 World
April 3: Cliff's Take: The Calm Before the Storm? America Pauses, While Social Distancing Continues
March 27: Cliff's Take: Our Great American Adaptation
March 21: Cliff's Take: The Uncertainty of Our New Normal - A Data Dump
March 13: Cliff's Take: COVID-19 and the Cracks in Trump’s Armor
February 28: Cliff's Take: Bernie Sanders and the Establishment’s Last Stand
February 21: Cliff's Take: How the Coronavirus Outbreak Could Change Our Future
February 14: Cliff's Take: Biden's Electability Lead Fizzles
January 28: Cliff's Take: Uncut Gems and Our Social Proximity to Addiction
January 17: Cliff's Take: Sanders and Biden Vie for the African American Vote
January 9: Cliff's Take: Electability and Swing State Fundamentals
December 20: Cliff's Take: Cognitive Surplus
December 12: Cliff's Take: The American Public Has Multiple Understandings of the Word "Impeachment"
November 26: Cliff's Take: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
November 14: Cliff's Take: Is Mayor Pete Trending?
November 6: Cliff's Take: Is Trump Distracted?
October 30: Cliff's Take: A Closer Look at Electability
October 22: Cliff's Take: Keep Your Eyes on Approval Numbers
October 15: A Crisis of Confidence in Our Electoral System
October 8: Country Music and Tribalism
October 1: Impeachment in the Global Context
September 24: The Forces that Produced Our Uncertain World Persist
September 16: Tattoos and Identity
September 9: No trees, just forest
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