As the COVID-19 crisis continues and the debate rages on between Twitter and President Trump over online content moderation, a new report from Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation found that Americans understand the threat of misinformation to public health and democracy, and want misleading information […] Read more »
The Major Supreme Court Cases This Term and What the Public Thinks
In the Supreme Court’s first full term since the arrival of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh shifted it to the right, the justices confronted an unusually potent mix of political and social issues in the middle of both a presidential election year and a public health crisis. Among the decisions that […] Read more »
Satisfaction With U.S. Direction Lowest in Four Years
• Satisfaction has dropped 25 points from recent high in February• Republicans’ 39% satisfaction down from 80% in February• Citations of race issues as most important problem highest since 1968 CONT. Megan Brenan, Gallup The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s […] Read more »
In the Midst of the Coronavirus Outbreak, Concerns about the Health Care System Remain
A new study from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research includes two surveys measuring attitudes about the health care system—the first conducted in early February 2020 just after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, […] Read more »
California: Support for a Single-Payer Health Care System to Address Disasters & Pandemics
The latest Berkeley IGS Poll finds that over half of all Californians agree that a “single-payer system, such as Medicare-for-all in which all Americans would get their insurance from a single government plan, would improve the nation’s ability to respond to disasters and pandemics such as COVID-19.” CONT. Institute of […] Read more »
Hesitancy to resume activities marks reopening challenges
With two-thirds of Americans worried about a second wave of the coronavirus, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds nearly 6 in 10 people are unready to resume their pre-pandemic activities, underscoring continued public unease as the nation seeks a return to normalcy. Impacts of the pandemic are vast. Seventy-nine […] Read more »