The 2020 election was historic and uniquely challenging. Not only was it conducted in the middle of a global pandemic, but it was one of the most intensely partisan elections in recent history. Despite these immense challenges, America’s democratic process survived. Election administrators, poll workers and voters themselves rallied to […] Read more »
Biden continues to hold on to high approval ratings
President Biden continues to enjoy widespread job approval, as well as approval of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and healthcare. The public is less positive about his handling of immigration and gun policy. And 54% say things in this country are going in the right direction, the highest since […] Read more »
It’s All About Confidence
There is little doubt that this country is both narrowly and badly divided. To the extent that there is any debate about the severity, it is whether today is worse than 1968, when both the civil rights struggle and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam divided the country. A lack […] Read more »
Bidenomics Really Is Something New
Some of the changes are obvious: Compared with the economic strategies of former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Joe Biden is proposing more new spending and more new taxes than either of his Democratic predecessors, and he’s abandoned their support for negotiating new free-trade agreements. But Biden is also […] Read more »
Approval of President Biden remains at 55%
President Biden enters the month of May with a 55% approval rating, unchanged from the week prior. Americans are most concerned about the economy, public health, inequality, and immigration. … Nearly 9 in 10 Democrats approve of Biden’s performance as President. Meanwhile, only 22% of Republicans and 49% of independents […] Read more »
Is the era of government back?
Like most Americans, and nearly everyone on my side of the partisan divide, I’m thrilled with the agenda President Biden has laid out and pleased with the high levels of public support it has generated. … Some commentators suggest these findings herald a fundamentally new and more expansive view of […] Read more »