This release features findings from a national online survey of 1,009 registered voters conducted June 11-15, 2020. • Trump’s overall job approval has hit a new low in our tracking as Americans continue to hear negative things about his handling of recent protests and the coronavirus pandemic.• A majority say […] Read more »
Will The Shifting Views On Police And Racism Last?
In this week’s FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the team discusses how public opinion on racism has changed over the past few weeks and how this will affect our politics. FiveThirtyEight The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up here: opiniontoday.substack Read more »
‘Defund the Police’ movement politically fraught
… The data is clear. Only a plurality of Americans support defunding the police. But a majority of Democrats and African Americans do. Will this be a key motivator in the 2020 presidential election? It is shaping up to be. This is good for Trump; bad for Biden. CONT. Clifford […] Read more »
White House divide on Floyd response, as some push Trump for tougher tactics
With less than five months before voters head to the polls, President Donald Trump finds himself in an uncertain position: caught between advisers urging him to calm a country in the grips of a pandemic, economic uncertainty and civil unrest and those who want him to lean into aggressive tactics […] Read more »
The Protests Appear To Be Working
Nationwide protests against police violence have continued around the country for nearly three weeks. Their size and scope evoke the civil rights protests of the 1960s. But can we judge the efficacy of a protest movement by a measure other than its size? And do the current protests seem to […] Read more »
Amid Protests, Majorities Across Racial and Ethnic Groups Express Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement
As demonstrations continue across the country to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man killed while in Minneapolis police custody, Americans see the protests both as a reaction to Floyd’s death and an expression of frustration over longstanding issues. Most adults say tensions between black people and police […] Read more »