Momentive poll: Elon Musk buys Twitter

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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the soon-to-be owner of Twitter, has a +16 favorability rating among the general population in the U.S., (41%FAV/25%UNFAV/31%DK) and a +15 favorability rating among Twitter users (47%FAV/32%UNFAV/21%DK).

These data come from a new Momentive poll fielded April 18-25, 2022 among 7,031 adults in the U.S., including 1,613 Twitter users. …

More than half (53%) of people said Twitter was headed in the right direction as a company; 44% said it was headed in the wrong direction.

Among Twitter users, more think Musk would have a positive effect on the company’s direction if he had more involvement than thought he would have a negative effect (43% vs 33%). CONTINUED

Laura Wronski, Momentive

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Spring 2022 Harvard Youth Poll

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A national poll released today by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School indicates that while 18-to-29-year-olds are on track to match 2018’s record-breaking youth turnout in a midterm election this November and prefer Democratic control 55%-34%, there was a sharp increase in youth believing that “political involvement rarely has tangible results” (36%), their vote “doesn’t make a difference” (42%) and agreement that “politics today are no longer able to meet the challenges our country is facing” (56%). President Biden’s job approval has dropped to 41% among young Americans, down from 46% in the IOP Fall 2021 poll and down 18% overall in the past year. CONTINUED

Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

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American Voters Haven’t Been Afraid Like This in a Long Time

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In a rare convergence, America’s voters are not merely unhappy with their political leadership, but awash in fears about economic security, border security, international security and even physical security. Without a U-turn by the Biden administration, this fear will generate a wave election like those in 1994 and 2010, setting off a chain reaction that could flip the House and the Senate to Republican control in November, and ultimately the presidency in 2024. …

To combat the drag that fear has on the electorate — what I call a “fear index” — Mr. Biden will have to move in some big and bold ways. CONTINUED

Mark Penn (Stagwell Group), New York Times

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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court

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… Nearly half of Americans approve of Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court compared to 19% who disapprove and about a third who don’t have an opinion. Eighty percent of Democrats approve Brown Jackson’s confirmation and 43% of Republicans disapprove.

Overall, Democrats are satisfied with how President Biden and senators from their party handled the confirmation process. Only about one-third of Republicans approve the way Republican senators behaved during this process.

Few Americans, including only 7% of Republicans and 44% of Democrats, approve of the way the media covered Brown Jackson’s nomination process. CONTINUED

AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research

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Team Biden believed their own hype — and that has cost them

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President Biden, his team and some of his most prominent supporters convinced themselves of a fairy tale — that a major part of Biden’s 2020 victory was the political skill of the former vice president and his top advisers. Believing that hype and clinging to it are one of the main reasons that Biden’s presidency is, in my view, a disappointment right now — he is downplaying and even attacking progressive goals he once encouraged and refusing to strongly align with those who voted for him amid against a right-wing assault against them; but his poll numbers are dismal and his agenda stalled, with conservative and moderate voters and lawmakers not rewarding his attempts at being centrist. CONTINUED

Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post

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AP-NORC poll: Many support Jackson court confirmation

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More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided. And a majority of Black Americans — but fewer white and Hispanic Americans — approve of her confirmation.

Overall, 48% of Americans say they approve and 19% disapprove of Jackson’s confirmation to the high court according to the new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The remaining 32% of Americans hold no opinion. CONTINUED

Jessica Gresko & Hannah Fingerhut, Associated Press

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