A solid majority of Americans trust that the results of the 2020 presidential election are accurate, but only about a quarter of Republicans do, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey. Sixty-one percent say they trust the results, including two-thirds of independents, but just 24% of Republican respondents say they […] Read more »
Americans want more COVID-19 economic relief. Most think Congress should compromise
Two-thirds of Americans say the federal government has not done enough to ease the economic hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. … A majority of Americans — 61 percent — also said they would get vaccinated against the coronavirus, up from 49 […] Read more »
Americans Plan to Do More Shopping Online than in Person this Holiday Season
For the first time, more Americans say they will do most of their holiday shopping online than in person this year. Just 33% of Americans plan to do most of their holiday shopping by going to stores in person, down from a 53% majority in 2018 (when CBS News last […] Read more »
Biden-Harris Economic Priorities and U.S. Public Opinion
The Biden-Harris transition website lists four priorities for the forthcoming administration: COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change. How well do these priorities sync with U.S. public opinion? One way to answer that question is to use Gallup’s monthly update on Americans’ views of the most important problem facing […] Read more »
After Biden Win, Nation’s Republicans Fear the Economy Ahead
Optimism about the economy has taken a nosedive among Republicans. But the economy did not drive the change. The presidential election did. After President Trump’s loss to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., more than 40 percent of Republicans who were polled for The New York Times said they […] Read more »
Left v. Center? Bottom-Up!
The media has been vaunting the divide between the Democrats’ left and center and how the cleavage threatens Democrats’ tenuous majority. Here, a thousand miles outside the Beltway, a lot of the conversation seems pretty obscure: Like who the “squad,” a crew of House members with a talent for press […] Read more »