Sending troops to U.S.-Mexico border is popular. Other GOP policy planks are struggling.

The latest NBC News poll tests 11 different proposals and issues Republican presidential candidates are campaigning on so far — and the recent push on using the military at the border is resonating with general election voters, though they are down on several other high-profile policy planks. The most popular […] Read more »

Inflation, Health Costs, Partisan Cooperation Among the Nation’s Top Problems

The public’s list of the top problems facing the nation includes inflation, health care affordability, drug addiction and gun violence. Yet the ability of Republicans and Democrats to work together rates about as high on the problems list as these other concerns. And it is one of the few, among […] Read more »

Californians and Their Government

… Californians name economic conditions, homelessness, and housing as the most important issues facing the people of California today. Californians have mixed views about whether the state is going in the right or wrong direction. Strong majorities believe that the state will have bad times financially in the next 12 […] Read more »

U.S. Mood Remains Glum; 18% Satisfied With State of Nation

Eighteen percent of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., staying below 20% as it has since March. Americans are slightly more satisfied than last summer when gas prices and inflation were soaring. … Americans’ confidence in the U.S. economy also remains depressed, with Gallup’s […] Read more »