This edition of our daily tracking release features findings from a national online survey of 1,012 registered voters conducted April 23-April 28, 2020 and a combined dataset of 9,433 registered voters conducted March 20-April 27, 2020. • As Trump’s approval ratings remain underwater, governors maintain high ratings.• The public continues […] Read more »
America Failed to Prepare for Disaster Long Before Trump Took Over
… Voters can’t evaluate what they don’t know. So voters reward the party of the president when it spends after a disaster. But they seem not to know or care at all what government does before disaster. … How can ordinary people know what causes disaster or who is preventing […] Read more »
The Weakest Modern Presidency Faces a Pandemic From the Couch
… Even prior to the current emergency, Trump had rarely been invested in the substantive responsibilities of his office and had never been able to attract sustained popular support for himself or his policies. He has presided over an executive branch whose administrative and political capacity has been constrained by […] Read more »
Support for Big Government rises to record levels amid coronavirus crisis
In the era of coronavirus, Big Government is back. Americans by double-digit margins say the federal government is doing too little – not too much – to deal with the health and economic repercussions of the deadly pandemic that has now infected more than one million people across the country, […] Read more »
Americans support state restrictions on businesses and halt to immigration during virus outbreak
Americans overwhelmingly support state-imposed restrictions on businesses and the size of public gatherings to slow the spread of the coronavirus. They also back a temporary halt to immigration into the country, as ordered by President Trump, to deal with the crisis, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll. CONT. […] Read more »
Two-Thirds of Americans Expect Presidential Election Will Be Disrupted by COVID-19
Over the past two months, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus has had a devastating impact on nearly all aspects of life in the United States. And now, most Americans expect it will disrupt the presidential election in November. … The national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted April 7 […] Read more »