With a nation on edge, ravaged by disease, hammered by economic collapse, divided over lockdowns and even face masks and now convulsed once again by race, President Trump’s first instinct has been to look for someone to fight. … The days of discord have put the president’s leadership style on […] Read more »
Majority Want Reopen of Economy, Schools, Churches
The results of our recently completed national survey of 1,000 likely voters show that although the direction of the country remains in roughly the same place as last month with 38% saying that we’re headed in the right direction, and 60% saying the U.S. is on the wrong track, there […] Read more »
When Voters Discuss Coronavirus, They’re Really Talking About Trump
The coronavirus has completely overtaken American life and politics, but in polls, most people don’t name it as their top voting issue. Political observers agree that what happens with the virus over the next few months is likely to determine the outcome of the November presidential election, but what they […] Read more »
Mail-in ballots, the coronavirus, and a partisan brawl
When it comes to voting, Democrats and Republicans cultivate their own myths. Democrats are sure that there are millions of voters out there who, if it were easy to vote, would vote for them. Republicans are equally sure that if voting is too easy it would lead to a large […] Read more »
Americans’ views on reopening their communities
… Most Americans (62%) think the government’s priority should be preventing the virus from spreading and keeping people from getting sick or dying – a drop of ten percentage points from March when 72% prioritized preventing the virus from spreading. The May survey finds that almost a third of Americans […] Read more »
Age Versus Politics in Determining Virus-Related Attitudes
… The remarkable thing about these findings is the degree to which the subjective factor of partisanship is a much more powerful correlate of worry about the virus and self-isolation than the objective factor of age. I call age an objective factor because the relationship between age and higher probabilities […] Read more »