How can Americans favor the Iran deal by 18 or 19 percentage points and oppose it by 8 or 10? They can’t. Yet, in recent days, leading pollsters have offered all of those results. CONT. Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill Recent polls: Iran Read more »
Majority wants Congress to reject Iran deal
A majority of Americans want Congress to reject the recently-negotiated nuclear deal with Iran, even as President Barack Obama’s approval rating continues to stand in net-positive territory for the second month in a row, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »
Republicans Stand Against Cuba Change Despite Public Opinion Shift
… Once a community known for standing in solidarity in support of the trade embargo, steering U.S. policy toward Cuba, the Cuban-Americans of Miami-Dade are showing rifts in their political views. … The changing Cuban-American demographic may serve as a window into the group’s changing opinions. The number of Cuban-Americans […] Read more »
U.S. Jews support Iran deal, despite misgivings
By a wide margin, American Jews support the recently concluded agreement with Iran to restrict its nuclear program, and a clear majority of Jews wants Congress to approve the deal. In fact, as compared with Americans generally, Jews are more supportive of the “Iran deal,” in large part because Jews […] Read more »
5 charts on America’s (very positive) image in Africa
… Our 2015 survey found mostly positive ratings for the U.S. around the globe, but they were especially high in Africa – across the nine nations surveyed in the region, a median of 79% expressed a favorable opinion of the U.S., while just 10% had an unfavorable view. CONT. Richard […] Read more »
Two Approaches to Predicting Which Party Will Win in 2016
The 2016 presidential election is still more than a year away. It is highly likely that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee, but it is difficult to tell who the Republican nominee will be, with 18 currently declared candidates and Republican elites slow to generate a front-runner through endorsements. […] Read more »