African American and white residents of New Orleans see the progress of recovery since Hurricane Katrina very differently, according to a new survey from the Manship School of Mass Communication’s Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs at LSU. Nearly 80 percent of the city’s white residents feel Louisiana has […] Read more »
PDK/Gallup Poll: Testing doesn’t measure up for Americans
Student engagement at school and whether students feel hopeful about their future are far better factors to consider when evaluating schools than using standardized test scores, according to the results of the 47th annual PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools. … Among other findings of this […] Read more »
Can Hillary Clinton win the angry voters?
… Skeptical voters, especially white working-class ones, “are open to an expansive Democratic economic agenda — to more benefits for child care and higher education, to tax hikes on the wealthy, to investment in infrastructure spending,” Stanley B. Greenberg, chief pollster for the 1992 Clinton campaign, wrote in a recent […] Read more »
Proposals to Fix the American Economy
One of Gallup’s core missions is to measure and understand the attitudes of the American public on key policy issues of the day. In pursuit of that goal, Gallup recently began cataloging Americans’ attitudes about the potential effectiveness of specific proposals to fix the economy. CONT. Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
Millennials’ Views Reveal Different Challenges for Each Party
Millennials aren’t just younger than other Americans. They are different. They have different views of President Barack Obama. Different views of the new Iran nuclear deal. Different views of the role of government in American society. A reminder of these differences lies in—in fact, jumps out from–the latest Wall Street […] Read more »
Climate Battle Will Likely Divide Red and Blue States Down a Green Line
In the impending conflict over the Environmental Protection Agency carbon-reduction regulations President Obama will announce today, self-interest reinforces ideology. The conservative Republican-dominated red states most ideologically resistant to federal regulation in general also tend to be the states most reliant on carbon-intensive fuels (particularly coal) for their electricity. They’re also […] Read more »