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Expertise: Campaigns and elections, political ideology, public opinion
John Halpin is a senior fellow at American Progress focusing on campaigns and elections, political ideology, and public opinion analysis. Halpin has been at American Progress since it opened in 2003 and currently serves as the co-director of its Politics and Elections program.
Over a 20-year career in the fields of public opinion and election analysis, Halpin has written extensively on voter attitudes about domestic and foreign policy with research featured in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The American Prospect, and The Atlantic. He is the co-author with American Progress founder John Podesta of The Power of Progress: How America’s Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country, a 2008 book about the history and future of the progressive movement.
Halpin received his undergraduate degree in government from Georgetown University and his M.A. in political science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children.
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| Citizens in the World’s Leading Economies Want a Fast Recovery Post-Pandemic | Center for American Progress | July 29, 2021 |
| How Americans Envision a More Perfect Union | Center for American Progress | May 26, 2021 |
| Americans Want the Federal Government To Help People in Need | Center for American Progress | March 10, 2021 |
| Voters Strongly Back Federal Assistance for Those in Need | Center for American Progress | February 25, 2021 |
| The Issue Is Pluralism | Democracy Journal | October 13, 2020 |
| Conspiracy theories, misinformation, COVID-19, and the 2020 election | Survey Center on American Life | October 8, 2020 |
| As Election Nears, Millennial and Gen Z Voters Want Action on Child Care | Center for American Progress | October 7, 2020 |
| The State of the LGBTQ Community in 2020 | Center for American Progress | October 6, 2020 |
| What Do Voters Want on Child Care Ahead of the 2020 Elections? | Center for American Progress | September 25, 2020 |
| Why We Need Inclusive Nationalism | Democracy | July 29, 2020 |
| Trump-Biden voters could decide the 2020 election | The Washington Post | May 20, 2020 |
| To the Class of 2020: In defense of brevity, pragmatism and self-criticism | The Lowell Sun | May 17, 2020 |
| America Decides | Center for American Progress | December 5, 2019 |
| America Adrift: Listening to What Americans Want From U.S. Foreign Policy | Center for American Progress | October 25, 2019 |
| The Path to 270 in 2020 | Center for American Progress | October 24, 2019 |
| Striking a Better Course on U.S. Foreign Policy: An Alternative to Conservative Nationalism | Center for American Progress | July 29, 2019 |
| America Adrift | Center for American Progress | May 5, 2019 |
| Democrats Can and Should Expand the Map to Georgia and Arizona in 2020 | The American Prospect | March 1, 2019 |
| Voters Repudiate President Trump and GOP Policy Agenda—2020 Re-Election Is Uncertain | Center for American Progress | November 7, 2018 |
| Affordable Child Care and Early Learning for All Families | Center for American Progress | September 13, 2018 |
| Voters Across Party Lines Support Clean Slate Legislation | Center for American Progress | June 20, 2018 |
| Erdoğan Not Assured of First-Round Victory | Center for American Progress | June 14, 2018 |
| Trust in Government in the Trump Era | Center for American Progress | May 24, 2018 |
| How Ambivalent Trump Voters Feel About Him Now | The American Prospect | May 21, 2018 |
| Ensuring Basic Living Standards for All | Center for American Progress | March 7, 2018 |
| Turkey’s ‘New Nationalism’ Amid Shifting Politics | Center for American Progress | February 11, 2018 |
| Is Turkey Experiencing a New Nationalism? | Center for American Progress | February 11, 2018 |
| Voter Trends in 2016 | Center for American Progress | November 1, 2017 |
| Toward a Marshall Plan for America | Center for American Progress | May 16, 2017 |
| The Path to 270 in 2016, Revisited | Center for American Progress | October 6, 2016 |
| The Path to 270 in 2016 | Center for American Progress | December 17, 2015 |
| Looking for a Way Forward After the Unrest in Baltimore | Center for American Progress | May 13, 2015 |
| The Political Consequences of the Great Recession | Center for American Progress | November 6, 2014 |
| Beyond Identity Politics | Washington Monthly | June 10, 2014 |
| Moving the War on Poverty Forward | Center for American Progress | February 19, 2014 |
| A New Force for America’s Families | Center for American Progress | January 12, 2014 |
| 50 Years After LBJ’s War on Poverty | Center for American Progress | January 7, 2014 |
| Building an All-In Nation | Center for American Progress | October 22, 2013 |
| The Obama Coalition in the 2012 Election and Beyond | Center for American Progress | December 4, 2012 |
| The Return of the Obama Coalition | Center for American Progress | November 8, 2012 |
| The Path to 270 Revisited | Center for American Progress | September 20, 2012 |
| The Path to 270 | Center for American Progress | November 22, 2011 |
| The Constitution Is Inherently Progressive | Center for American Progress | October 11, 2011 |
| The Progressive Era for Today’s Progressives | Progressive Way | June 19, 2011 |
| The Demographic Change and Progressive Political Strategy Series | Center for American Progress | April 7, 2011 |
| The Origins and Evolution of Progressive Economics | Center for American Progress | March 14, 2011 |
| Progressives and the Founding | Center for American Progress | October 28, 2010 |
| The Progressivism of America’s Founding | Center for American Progress | October 8, 2010 |
| The Role of Faith in the Progressive Movement | Center for American Progress | October 8, 2010 |
| Universal Human Rights in Progressive Thought and Politics | Center for American Progress | October 8, 2010 |
| Latino Attitudes About Women and Society | Center for American Progress | July 9, 2010 |
| The Progressive Tradition in American Politics | Center for American Progress | April 14, 2010 |
| Social Movements and Progressivism | Center for American Progress | April 14, 2010 |
| The Progressive Intellectual Tradition in America | Center for American Progress | April 14, 2010 |
| The Political Ideology of the Millennial Generation | Center for American Progress | May 13, 2009 |
| Progressivism Goes Mainstream | Center for American Progress | April 20, 2009 |
| State of American Political Ideology, 2009 | Center for American Progress | March 11, 2009 |
| The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio | Center for American Progress | June 20, 2007 |
| Reducing Poverty is the Right Goal | Center for American Progress | April 26, 2007 |
| The $871,000 Job Subsidy | Center for American Progress | November 17, 2006 |
| Katrina and the Common Good | Center for American Progress | August 25, 2006 |
| Reclaiming the Common Good | Center for American Progress | June 5, 2006 |
| The Politics of Definition | Center for American Progress | April 20, 2006 |
| Progressive Message on the President’s Budget | Center for American Progress | February 14, 2005 |
| Cover-Up of Abu Ghraib Torture Puts Troops at Risk | Center for American Progress | May 11, 2004 |
| Detailed Timeline of Administration Statements On National Security | Center for American Progress | April 5, 2004 |
| Progressivism in 2004: Transcending the Liberal-Conservative Divide | Center for American Progress | January 5, 2004 |
