Early voting trends, the next wave of redistricting, mapping independents, the enemy is within, social media news rises while social media falls, the great trust reset
(a) The polling question about "the enemy within" defines that phrase _very_ differently than how Trump/MAGA uses it, and so broadly as to approach being meaningless. Gives that particular polling result a bit of a "are you against violent crime" vibe.
(b) The Pew polling data shows self-reported happiness levels not between religious and secular Americans, but rather between secular Americans and Christians specifically. I guess the assumption is that Christian belief can stand in for religious faith generally; not sure what the basis for that is? There are enough millions of Americans now who practice other faiths that this assumption's validity seems material to the overall polling at least in some age groups.
Two comments about those data charts:
(a) The polling question about "the enemy within" defines that phrase _very_ differently than how Trump/MAGA uses it, and so broadly as to approach being meaningless. Gives that particular polling result a bit of a "are you against violent crime" vibe.
(b) The Pew polling data shows self-reported happiness levels not between religious and secular Americans, but rather between secular Americans and Christians specifically. I guess the assumption is that Christian belief can stand in for religious faith generally; not sure what the basis for that is? There are enough millions of Americans now who practice other faiths that this assumption's validity seems material to the overall polling at least in some age groups.