A record-high 38% of Americans prefer that the same party control the presidency and Congress, while a record-low 23% say it would be better if the president and Congress were from different parties and 33% say it doesn’t make any difference. While Americans tend to lean toward one-party government over […] Read more »
2012 Gender Gap Could Be Historic, But Maybe Not For The Reason You’d Think
A slew of new presidential polls released this week not only confirm a long-established gender gap among voters, but also suggest that the male-female preference divide in this year’s presidential contest could hit historic levels. It may surprise that that divide appears not driven by social issues and arguments over […] Read more »
Americans Trust Judicial Branch Most, Legislative Least
Americans trust the judicial branch most and the legislative least of the three branches of government, with trust in the executive branch falling in between these two. Trust in all three branches is up slightly this year, but from a longer-term perspective, the legislative branch has lost by far the […] Read more »
More Americans Trust Government’s Handling of Problems
Americans’ trust in Washington, D.C., to handle international problems is up sharply compared with this time last year, and is now the highest in Gallup trends since the start of the Iraq war in 2003. [cont.] Lydia Saad, Gallup Read more »
We Are the 96 Percent
When Mitt Romney told the guests at a fund-raiser in Florida in May that America is divided between people who pay no income taxes and depend on government and pretty much everyone else, he missed the deeper truth. … The reality he glossed over is that nearly all Americans have […] Read more »
Little Appetite for More Gov’t Regulation of Business
Americans say there is too much (47%) rather than too little (26%) government regulation of business and industry, with 24% saying the amount of regulation is about right. … The collapse of Lehman Bros., the failure of the secondary mortgage market, and other business problems in 2008 and 2009 might […] Read more »