Voters continue to support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants currently living in the United States, although support has declined since February. And while majorities remain concerned about certain issues linked with illegal immigration, voters are becoming increasingly less worried about them, according to the latest Fox News Poll. […] Read more »
Democratic Candidates Should Be Bolder on Gun Control, Poll Finds
Gun control has been a third rail of Democratic campaigns, but a new poll suggests that Democratic candidates should embrace a bolder approach to restrictions on guns, even in general elections. … I’m normally reluctant to write about issue polls because they often fail to put into context how voters […] Read more »
PDK Poll: Arming teachers trails other school security measures preferred by parents
Security concerns run high after a year marked by horrific school shootings, with just 27% of K-12 parents in the 50th annual PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools expressing strong confidence that their school could deter an attack like those that have wrenched communities across the […] Read more »
Race, Income, Gender and Safety in America
Based on Gallup’s data about people’s perceptions of their own safety and their experiences with law enforcement, we know that Americans from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds don’t share the same sense of security. There are significant disparities. We find the same is true for men and women. CONT. Sofia […] Read more »
Do Americans Tolerate Zero Tolerance?
Controversies over “zero tolerance” have exploded recently in two very distinct contexts: the Trump administration’s policy for undocumented border-crossers, dramatized most starkly in its separation of migrant children from their parents, and the #MeToo debate over how firm policies should be toward men who press themselves on women, highlighted by […] Read more »
Nobody knows how ‘abolish ICE’ plays politically
On Thursday night, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) called for the elimination of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. By Friday morning, Republican campaign groups were asking whether Democrats who had taken money from Gillibrand — a number of female candidates in swing races — would echo the senator or denounce […] Read more »