Sixty-five percent of Americans think climate change is a problem that the government needs to address, including 43 percent of Republicans and 84 percent of Democrats, according to a new survey from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs […] Read more »
Americans’ Knowledge of the Branches of Government Is Declining
Only a quarter of Americans can name all three branches of government, the poorest showing on that question in a half-dozen years, a new survey on civic knowledge has found. Nearly a third of Americans cannot name any of the three branches of government, according to the survey conducted by […] Read more »
More Favor Major Government Role in Assisting Minorities
As both major party presidential candidates tout ways their policies will benefit blacks and other minority groups, Americans are now, more so than in recent years, open to a prominent government role to help racial minorities. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
Twelve Charts That Show a Massive Divide in How Americans See the Economy
In the midst of a heated presidential election campaign, it’s clear that America is a nation divided on both personal pocketbook issues and those relating to the national economy. Some of these differences play out along partisan lines. For instance, Democratic consumer sentiment increased markedly relative to Republican consumer sentiment […] Read more »
How do Americans view poverty?
Sharp differences along lines of race and politics shape American attitudes toward the poor and poverty, according to a new survey of public opinion, which finds empathy toward the poor and deep skepticism about government antipoverty efforts. The differences illuminate some of the passions that have driven this year’s contentious […] Read more »
The Outsider Illusion: How Democrats should navigate an angry electorate
The conventional narrative pushed throughout the primary season, among both the Democratic and Republican fields, was simplistic but not altogether inaccurate: the anti-establishment outsider who was sick and tired of Washington dysfunction versus the reasoned and established candidate(s) who wanted to fight within the system, however flawed it may be. […] Read more »