Americans split on recent Supreme Court decisions

In polling conducted June 30-July 1, 2023—just after the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action, struck down the Biden student loan forgiveness plan, and ruled in favor of a web designer seeking to deny services to a same-sex couple—a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds the American public is split on the […] Read more »

The Post-Racial Republicans

… One of the core beliefs that binds the modern Republican coalition, particularly since the rise of Donald Trump, is rejection of the idea that racial minorities and women face structural bias in American society. Studies of the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections conducted by the Tufts political scientist Brian […] Read more »

CBS News poll finds most say colleges shouldn’t factor race into admissions

The American public feels that many groups face discrimination today and widely believes that racism remains a problem in the country, at least to some degree — but it is more closely divided over affirmative action as a general policy, with a narrow majority supporting it. Those who feel there’s […] Read more »

What is ‘Woke?’ New UMass Amherst Poll Asks Americans their Views on Culture Issues

A new national University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll has surveyed Americans’ views on some of the culture issues being used by politicians to divide the country, including diversity, trans rights, antisemitism, immigration and even the definition of the political buzzword of the day – “woke.” “As the field of candidates […] Read more »