All of us are desperate to get our lives back to some sense of normalcy. We want to know if we can send the kids back to school this fall, hang out at our favorite restaurant, and hug our parents. Those of us in the politics business are wondering if […] Read more »
In back-to-back tweets, Trump shares a fake poll number and dismisses a real poll number as fake
… For more than a year, Trump’s just occasionally shared random assessments of his popularity within his party, never offering any explanation for where the figure came from. … Unlike any real poll number, the figure never goes down, only up. This is as good a sign as any that […] Read more »
Gauging Concerns About Americans’ Personal Finances
We are gaining new information to help gauge the impact of the coronavirus on Americans’ personal financial situations. Two conclusions stand out from a reading of the data. Americans’ worries about the possibility of personal financial hardship are now about the same as their worries about getting the virus, a […] Read more »
Deep Partisan Differences on Almost Every Dimension of Coronavirus
Even as many states start to lift restrictions on businesses and social gatherings, most Americans are expecting the coronavirus pandemic to upend their summers, with few saying they expect to stay in a hotel (32%), fly (23%), or attend a concert or sporting event (19%) during the next three months, […] Read more »
Politico-Harvard poll: Stark partisan divide on reopening America
Most Republicans are rallying behind President Donald Trump’s calls for a quick reopening of businesses closed by coronavirus shutdowns, while Democrats strongly favor a more cautious approach, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health survey. … “What we have here is a very real partisan split […] Read more »
Trump has successfully flattened the curve — on Republican concern about contracting coronavirus
It has consistently been the case that the speed at which the U.S. economy returns to normal depends heavily on the confidence Americans have in the safety of doing so. Polling from Quinnipiac University released Wednesday shows there’s still a great deal of reticence about resuming normal activity, with only […] Read more »