Nearly a year after the United States launched its first airstrikes against ISIS, the public remains broadly supportive of the military campaign. Yet Americans also have persistent doubts about how well the U.S. military effort is going, and there is no agreement about whether the U.S. should deploy ground troops […] Read more »
Growing Public Support for U.S. Ties With Cuba – And an End to the Trade Embargo
As the United States and Cuba moved this week to end more than 50 years of diplomatic conflict, public support for re-establishing relations with Cuba has increased. There is equally broad, and growing, support for ending the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. In addition, a separate survey released today finds […] Read more »
Iran Nuclear Agreement Meets With Public Skepticism
More Americans disapprove than approve of the deal struck last week by the U.S., Iran and five other nations to limit Iran’s nuclear program: Among the 79% of Americans who have heard about the agreement, just 38% approve, while 48% disapprove (14% do not offer an opinion). CONT. Pew Read more »
CBS News poll: Resuming relations with Cuba
As Cuba and the U.S. are about to officially resume diplomatic ties for the first time in 54 years, 58 percent of Americans favor re-establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries, while just 24 percent oppose. Seventy-two percent of Democrats and 55 percent of independents support re-establishing diplomatic relations with […] Read more »
Majority Favors Iran Nuclear Deal Despite Doubts That It’ll Work
Americans by a broad 19-point margin support the nuclear deal with Iran announced last week, even as two-thirds in an ABC News/Washington Post poll express skepticism it’ll work — and relatively few give Barack Obama credit for bringing it to pass. CONT. Gary Langer, ABC News Read more »
Iran Nuclear Deal’s Biggest Skeptics: GOP Primary Voters
Political reaction to the nuclear deal negotiated with Iran has been swift, with the 2016 Republican presidential field coming out strongly against the agreement. … Those sentiments mesh closely with where Republican presidential primary voters are on the issue, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. In the […] Read more »