Ipsos Core Political: President Biden’s approval rating at 39%

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This week’s Ipsos Core Political has President Biden with a 39% approval rating, a 13-point decrease from this time last year when he stood at 52%. Nearly one-third of Americans (32%) believe the economy is the most important problem facing the U.S. today, an 11-point increase from this time last year. …

President Biden sees his lowest approval rating among Democrats yet, with only 74% approving of him. This is a 12-point drop from this time last year when 86% approved of him. CONTINUED

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Egad! It’s a guide to the 2022 midterms

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Egad is one of those fusty words that you associate with Dr. Watson in a Sherlock Holmes mystery or P.G. Wodehouse mocking the British aristocracy. But taken as the acronym EGAD, it becomes a handy guide to the 2022 midterm elections.

Just four months until early voting begins in earnest, the issue contours of the election are coming into focus. And they spell the letters in EGAD — the economy, guns, abortion and democracy. CONTINUED

Walter Shapiro, Roll Call

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Record-High 50% of Americans Rate U.S. Moral Values as ‘Poor’

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A record-high 50% of Americans rate the overall state of moral values in the U.S. as “poor,” and another 37% say it is “only fair.” Just 1% think the state of moral values is “excellent” and 12% “good.” Although negative views of the nation’s moral values have been the norm throughout Gallup’s 20-year trend, the current poor rating is the highest on record by one percentage point. …

Republicans’ increasingly negative assessment of the state of moral values is largely responsible for the record-high overall poor rating. At 72%, Republicans’ poor rating of moral values is at its highest point since the inception of the trend and up sharply since Trump left office. CONTINUED

Megan Brenan & Nicole Willcoxon, Gallup

Fifty Years of Title IX: Where Are We Now?

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Fifty years after the passage of Title IX prohibited high schools and colleges from discriminating on the basis of gender, most Americans believe there has been at least some progress in providing equal treatment for women. However, the public perceives somewhat less progress when it comes to protecting against gender discrimination, harassment, and violence than in other areas such as education and sports, according to a new AP-NORC/National Women’s History Museum poll.

Although Title IX is best known for its role in equal treatment for women and girls in athletics, more Americans prioritize its other principles, like protecting all students from sexual harassment and female students from discrimination, than say the same about providing equal opportunities and resources to play sports. CONTINUED

AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research

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Economic Optimism Crashes To 10-Year Low As Inflation Surges, S&P 500 Dives

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Americans are more pessimistic about the U.S. economy than they’ve been in more than a decade, as inflation cancels out wage gains and the S&P 500 slides into bear market territory, the June IBD/TIPP Poll finds.

The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, an early monthly read on consumer confidence, sank 3.1 points to 38.1, the lowest reading since August 2011. CONTINUED

Jed Graham, Investor’s Business Daily

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Americans divided over when to return to “normal”

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According to the latest wave of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index, American adults are largely divided into three camps: those that consider the pandemic over, those that feel left behind by their peers, and those that that are muddling through.

The poll also finds that Americans on both sides of the aisle support requiring international travelers flying into the U.S. to test negative for COVID-19. This comes as the Biden administration suspended the policy over the weekend (while this poll was in field). CONTINUED

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