It’s uncertain whether President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall will ever separate the US from Mexico. But it’s already clear that the wall is reinforcing the fundamental fault line separating blue from red America. Opinions about the wall have become deeply interwoven with attitudes about the larger changes in culture, […] Read more »
Shutdown Effects: Economic hardship far from D.C.
For many Americans, the idea of a “government shutdown” brings to mind empty desks and hardship in Washington, D.C., but a month into this latest round of the government furloughs, there are serious impacts far beyond the Beltway. The data around the shutdown tell the story. CONT. Dante Chinni & […] Read more »
Economic Anxiety: The difference in anxiety levels between men and women
Money, money, money. It’s no doubt it makes the world go ‘round, but it also throws some into a tailspin. On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, Mary Meyn, Vice President at Edison Research, stops by to discuss the results of the latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll. Which gender loses more […] Read more »
Americans view this shutdown much as they did past ones – negatively and with much anxiety
Like so many issues in the United States these days, the partial shutdown of the federal government – now the longest in U.S. history – is viewed very differently by people in different partisan and ideological camps. In a new Pew Research Center survey, about six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) call […] Read more »
Public Opinion, the Wall and Views of Government
The U.S. government is partially shut down because elected representatives and the elected president can’t agree on legislation to fund government operations. This comes at a time when the people of the United States have in all but two of the past 13 months named dysfunctional government as the top […] Read more »
Trump Is Unifying Democrats Instead of Consolidating His Base
… By this point, it’s pretty clear that the president and the GOP are in a very deep hole. The wall hasn’t become more popular. The majority of the public blames the shutdown on Trump. A CNN poll found that just 66 percent of Republicans agree that building the wall […] Read more »