Most Americans say that racism is a serious problem in the country, and almost half say the same about police violence against the public. The latest poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was conducted as protests spread across the country in response to the killing of […] Read more »
American Attitudes and Race
… Data from Gallup and many other survey sources confirm that majorities of black Americans report living a life in which they confront bias, discrimination, fewer opportunities to get ahead and continuing confrontations with prejudice. … Gallup has frequently asked whites to answer the same questions about racial discrimination that […] 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 »
Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim
African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays bare how black Americans have borne the brunt of the pandemic. CONT. Kat Stafford & Hannah Fingerhut, […] 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 »