Americans this past weekend stepped up their already considerable efforts to engage in social distancing in response to the novel coronavirus. Seventy-two percent of U.S. adults now say they are avoiding public places like stores and restaurants, well ahead of the 54% reporting this last week. Nearly as many (68%) […] Read more »
President Trump’s Job Approval Rating Up to 49%
President Donald Trump may be enjoying a small rally in public support as the nation faces the COVID-19 pandemic. Forty-nine percent of U.S. adults, up from 44% earlier this month, approve of the job Trump is doing as president. Trump also had 49% job approval ratings — the best of […] Read more »
Why Trump wants to be seen as a ‘wartime’ President
… Donald Trump is trying to redefine coronavirus as a foreign threat (“the Chinese virus”) and himself as a wartime president defending the nation against what amounts to an invasion. … Trump “is now leaning into the notion of being a wartime president in part because somebody told him that […] Read more »
Michigan Residents Overwhelmingly Concerned about Personal Impacts of COVID-19
Michigan residents have expressed overwhelming concern for the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19), according to the latest statewide poll conducted by Marketing Resource Group (MRG). When asked if they are concerned about COVID-19 and how it may affect them or their family, 82 percent of respondents voiced concern with 16 […] Read more »
How COVID-19 Is — And Isn’t — Changing Politics
According to the latest polling, the spread of COVID-19 has disrupted the daily lives of the vast majority of Americans. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses how that broad effect has — and has not — changed partisan politics. They also ask how the pandemic […] Read more »
Four Reasons to Be Cautious About Trump’s Approval Ratings
Ever since the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis began to accelerate a couple of weeks ago, political obsessives have wondered about the likely effect that it would have on President Trump’s job approval ratings—and, by extension, his chances of re-election in November. … But realistically, it’s far too soon to glean much […] Read more »