Data for Progress

Okay.

Nevertheless, the 19th had a story last week about a survey that was just released by the Data for Progress.

And they asked voters about their perceptions of Greek life.

So this was down party, gender, and racial lines.

We got CNN polls that were really rosy for Democrats showing them ahead in Texas by six, in Michigan by seven, in Maine by four, in Kansas also by four.

We got new polls from Emerson and Data for Progress.

And I did want to shout out, in particular, these polls from Data for Progress that, you know, a part of this election has been narratives about candidate quality.

And what we see there is, you know, Data for Progress polls in both Michigan and Maine, which are kind of the big states where Democrats have been asking these questions about candidate quality.

You see that in Michigan, they show a nine-point lead for Jocelyn Benson, the Democrat running for governor, and a four-point lead for Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat running for Senate.

In Maine, you see a 12-point lead for Hannah Pingree, Democrat running for governor, and a five-point lead for Troy Jackson, the Democrat running for Senate.

We'll talk about Alaska because it's being roiled by a new controversy.

Right, so we've got a poll from Alaska Survey Research, Data for Progress, and older polls, I guess.

And they're between 6 and 20? They're

between 6 and 20.

That clip first posted by Alaskan journalist Matt Tunseth.

A poll from Data for Progress about a week ago showed a very close race for Alaska Senate.

Mary Peltola leading Dan Sullivan 51% to 49%.

quote, in the simulated final round of the ranked choice election for Senate.

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American adults are doing nearly all in real life social activities less often in 2026 than 30 years ago, according to a recent analysis from a group called Data for Progress.

This is from the Mo News Instagram.

This progressive think tank surveyed more than a thousand American adults and asked them if they participated in a number of social activities at least once in the past year.

Two recent polls show Begich leading Hill by five to six percentage points after Alaska's ranked choice voting tabulation.

A newer poll by Data for Progress put Begich's lead at just two points, although the New York Times noted the pollster does not meet its criteria for selected pollsters.

Hill's campaign received a boost after Democrat Matt Schultz suspended his campaign and endorsed Hill.

Schultz received about 8 percent of the vote in August's primary.

I want to kind of tie this into the polling thing.

Do you remember the other day we had a story I told you about that said people aren't having dinner parties anymore? That was part of a whole data set from a group called Data for Progress.

And what they were doing was comparing, you can actually pull this up if you are interested.

It's a table that compares social activities in 1995 and in 2026.

OK, and today we are continuing our closing argument series celebrating the two year anniversary of this very podcast.

So far, we've had Leah Greenberg, Chuck Rocha, Ryan O'Donnell of Data for Progress.

And today we are continuing with Jessica Byrd, president of Black Campaign School and chief counselor of Black Camp.

Byrd is a nationally recognized political strategist who focuses on representative leadership, multiracial democracy efforts, and a fresh framework for elections called electoral justice.