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Charles Franklin
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Director, Marquette Law School poll. Co-founder Pollster.com. Prof Emeritus UW-Madison. R nerd. Site: https://pollsandvotes.com

MULawPoll: https://law.marquette.edu/poll/category/results-and-data/
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Really useful to have such a significant corpus of news attention qs for comparison!

Also highlights how much tariffs, DOGE, immigration and the Abrego Garcia case in particular broke through.
Attention to news in 2025. What we noticed and what we ignored.

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December 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Attention to news in 2025. What we noticed and what we ignored.

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December 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
How family finances changed under Trump and Biden. Dig down for partisan and income differences. Beware the unhappy middle-income folks.

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December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Is there a new embrace of religion among the young? News reports have found examples of flourishing young congregations. But Pew national polls find stability over last 5 years and some decline among the young. Some perspective. charlesatpollsandvotes.substack.com/p/religion-a...
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Midterm seat loss, 1862-2022

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December 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Pizzeria Dolorosa in La Crosse. Amazing pizza, original toppings. Not to be missed when in the Driftless.
December 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Trump net approval has been slipping in polling averages. This story looks at economic issues and among independents. Good use of MULawPoll, Fox & Ipsos data.
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Second acts in Wisconsin elections? The record is daunting.

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No second acts: Repeat performances in Wisconsin elections
Is the second time the charm?
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December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Trump net approvals across issues, party, and time.

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November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Trump net approvals across issues, party and time.

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November 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Gallup Nov. Trump approval: 36% approve, 60% disapprove, a 5 point drop in approval and 6 point increase in disapproval since Oct. Several points below my approval trend across all polls which puts approval at 40.5%, disapproval at 56.1%

Here is Gallup approval history since FDR
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Trump's approval has declined in October and November, after holding pretty steady July-Sept. Steady decline Jan-Mar, then sharper after announcing tariffs in April, rose in May after backing off on tariffs. Then small decline in June. Current decline is across most pollsters.
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Harry Enten on ACA tax credit extension, data from @MULawPoll national survey.
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Trump approvals across topics. Topics ordered by average net approval (after overall).
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Trump net favorability by race and ethnicity, 2022-25. Decline among Hispanic respondents in 2025 is notable after gains in 2023-24.
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
More from this week’s @MULawPoll national poll on UpFront. Inflation and grocery prices.

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UPFRONT: Partisan grocery divide
Marquette Law School Poll Director Charles Franklin joins ‘UPFRONT’
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November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Wisconsin Public Television conversation about my @MULawPoll national poll this week looking to 2026 midterms.

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Charles Franklin on Trump's approval ratings as 2025 ends
Charles Franklin on approval ratings for President Donald Trump as the midterms begin.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
UMich Survey of Consumers sees rising concern about possible job loss, especially among the young.

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November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
U Michigan consumer sentiment fell to 50.3 in preliminary November data. That is just 0.3 higher than the low point of the Biden administration, 50.0, in June 2022 at the peak of the inflation surge. Down 29.9% year-over-year. www.sca.isr.umich.edu
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Dems do very well in VA. Win Gov by 14, AG by 5 (despite texting scandal), perhaps most impressive shift house of delegates from D 51-49 to D 64-36

Talk of NJ as swing state premature: Dem win Gov by nearly 13. Was supposed to be much closer

Surprise 2 PSC D wins in GA

most vote in but unofficial
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Presidential approval, 1937-present. Data from Gallup polls.
October 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Informative map of where Obamacare/ACA enrollment grew the most from 2020-2025. From Wall Street Journal. Story, no paywall. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
See what 1041 Americans say they like & dislike about Trump and their biggest concerns. Click Shuffle Responses to see 5 at a time, page through at bottom right. Filter in the boxes, here for example Trump voters, Fox viewers who say "cost" is a concern. lubarcenter.shinyapps.io/mlspsc28-ope...
October 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Who gets news from where and uses which social media apps? New @MULawPoll *national* survey takes a look overall and by party identification. See @jdjmke post on this at our @mulaw blog: law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/...
October 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Maybe this explains why I confuse Spotify so much. My two top plays of the week.
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM