In the third Thanksgiving since the COVID-19 pandemic began and made indoor family gatherings more challenging, about half of Americans (48%) will now celebrate by gathering indoors with people from other households — up from 30% in 2020. The latest Economist/YouGov poll finds that 9% of Americans will gather outdoors […] Read more »
Trump Was a Gift That Might Not Keep Giving
… For two successive presidential elections, Trump has stymied the most ambitious members of his party, and now this group is becoming increasingly assertive. DeSantis, Youngkin, Haley, Mike Pompeo, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Mike Pence are engaged in the process of challenging the current occupant of the […] Read more »
Trump’s Problems, Pelosi’s Decision And A 2022 Wrap
The votes were still being counted but the news was being made elsewhere. Donald Trump announced his candidacy but then was hit with two bombshells: The Justice Department named a special counsel to investigate the national security documents he took to Mar-a-Lago and his role in the January 6th insurrection, […] Read more »
The U.S. Should Continue Supporting Ukraine—Americans Want To
The Ukrainian liberation of western Kherson Oblast on November 11 was a major victory. It has not ended the terrible pressure under which Ukrainians find themselves, however. … Americans, fortunately, seem to agree that the US should continue to support Ukraine militarily and financially despite hinted Russian nuclear threats. A […] Read more »
Polls vs. pundits: Who performed worse in 2022?
Everyone seems to have internalized the habit of yelling about polls after elections, so it’s understandable if you didn’t notice that the good ones gave us a pretty good picture of what would happen in the 2022 midterm elections. As a pollster myself, I was frustrated by the narrative that […] Read more »
One in Four Workers Still Fear Catching COVID-19 at Work
U.S. workers’ fear of contracting COVID-19 on the job has waned over the course of the pandemic, but a certain amount of unease persists. About one in four employed adults still say they are “very” (6%) or “moderately” (20%) concerned about being exposed to the coronavirus at work, while a […] Read more »