With COVID-19 cases starting to decline across the nation, the American public is completely divided on how to handle the pandemic in the near term, according to the latest Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index. As the country wrestles with how to move on (or not), one thing is clear: two in three […] Read more »
Americans Are Frustrated With the Pandemic. These Polls Show How Much.
A wave of polls taken as the Omicron variant crested across much of the United States shows new signs that the public’s resolve to combat the coronavirus pandemic is waning. The surveys depict an increasingly frustrated and pessimistic nation that is as worried by the specter of an endless pandemic […] Read more »
Low Satisfaction With U.S. Gov’t Regulation of Businesses
At the end of President Joe Biden’s first year in office, Americans’ satisfaction with the government’s regulation of businesses and industries has fallen eight percentage points to 28%, the lowest point since 2016 when Gallup first began tracking this measure annually. Dissatisfaction is at a new high of 60% and […] Read more »
Americans Offer Gloomy State of the Nation Report
Americans’ satisfaction with a variety of aspects of U.S. society and the state of policy in key issue areas remains subdued in 2022 after falling in 2021. In fact, in only one area — acceptance of gays and lesbians — are more Americans satisfied now than were in 2020, before […] Read more »
Time to Accept Covid and Move On?
Americans continue to be concerned about the spread of Covid, but the vast majority say it is time to accept it as part of life. The latest Monmouth University Poll finds a majority of the public continues to support some preventative measures, such as face mask and social distancing guidelines, […] Read more »
Confidence Declines in CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci
Battered by waves of Covid-19 and confusion over shifting government messages about it, Americans’ confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declined in January with drops both among groups of Democrats/Democratic-leaning independents and Republicans/Republican-leaning independents, according to January survey data from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of […] Read more »