No one really knows where the arc of history is bending these days, but this weekend we got a good look at where the arc of conservative activism is heading. The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus has now topped 40,000 but, egged on by presidential tweets, […] Read more »
Message testing coronavirus response
On behalf of Groundwork Collaborative, Data for Progress conducted a message test around President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic in order to determine the most effective messaging for progressives to use in highlighting the President’s responsibility for the public health and economic crises that have arisen due to […] Read more »
Americans more concerned that government will move too quickly to lift coronavirus restrictions
Nearly 60 percent of American voters say they are more concerned that a relaxation of stay-at-home restrictions would lead to more COVID-19 deaths than they are that those restrictions will hurt the U.S. economy, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. But while strong majorities of Democrats […] Read more »
National Poll of Latinos Finds 35% of Households Have Experienced a Layoff as a Result of COVID-19
As the Latino community grapples with the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, including a higher rate of fatalities compared to other populations, the nation’s first in-depth poll of the Latino population in America for 2020 has found that 35% of Latino households have already experienced a job loss, while more […] Read more »
The vast majority of Americans support continued social distancing
This edition of our daily tracking release features findings from a national online survey of 997 registered voters conducted April 14-April 17, 2020. • Trump’s approval ratings continue to drop and hit new lows in our daily tracking.• The percentage rating the economy negatively has hit a new high.• While […] Read more »
What’s Driving the Right-Wing Protesters Fighting the Quarantine?
In an era when hardly anything feels nonpartisan, the coronavirus was starting to look like a consensus issue. … But this week, a rash of well-organized protests against state restrictions broke out — a jolting reminder that not everyone is on board with the new, government-mandated limits on public assembly […] Read more »