While a growing number of American households have lost jobs due to COVID-19, a majority of U.S. adults say they still are uncomfortable with reopening the country, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. … When asked whether they believe Trump or their state’s governor was doing a better job […] Read more »
The Compliance Curve: Will People Stay Home Much Longer?
Over the past month, Americans have heard a lot about “flattening the curve” and reducing the strain on the healthcare system by limiting their exposure to COVID-19. Despite being instructed to continue practicing social distancing, Americans’ support for prolonged government-mandated restrictions has been neither complete nor unwavering. CONT. Sofia Kluch, […] Read more »
America Failed to Prepare for Disaster Long Before Trump Took Over
… Voters can’t evaluate what they don’t know. So voters reward the party of the president when it spends after a disaster. But they seem not to know or care at all what government does before disaster. … How can ordinary people know what causes disaster or who is preventing […] Read more »
Support for Big Government rises to record levels amid coronavirus crisis
In the era of coronavirus, Big Government is back. Americans by double-digit margins say the federal government is doing too little – not too much – to deal with the health and economic repercussions of the deadly pandemic that has now infected more than one million people across the country, […] Read more »
Americans support state restrictions on businesses and halt to immigration during virus outbreak
Americans overwhelmingly support state-imposed restrictions on businesses and the size of public gatherings to slow the spread of the coronavirus. They also back a temporary halt to immigration into the country, as ordered by President Trump, to deal with the crisis, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll. CONT. […] Read more »
New York State: Coronavirus Pandemic Pushes Cuomo to Record High Ratings
• Coronavirus Pandemic Pushes Cuomo to Record High Ratings; Voters Trust Cuomo over Trump on NY Reopening 78-16%• Half of NYers Know Someone Who’s Tested Positive; One-Third Know Someone Who’s Died from Coronavirus; Both Numbers Higher Downstate than Upstate• Near Universal Support for Gov’s Orders to Extend NY ‘On Pause’ […] Read more »