President Donald Trump’s promise to begin reopening the economy in the coming weeks faces an immovable obstacle: The big cities that drive America’s economic growth and innovation are the same places straining under the heaviest burden of the coronavirus outbreak. The counties confronting the largest number of cases are primarily […] Read more »
Gallup COVID-19 Data Brief No. 2
Gallup has covered a lot of ground this past week in our daily measurement of Americans’ experience of the COVID-19 crisis. Here is what we know as of April 2. CONT. Gallup editors Read more »
Pandemic Pollwatch, April 2: An analysis of global public opinion on COVID-19
… A team of researchers at Oxford University has developed a single metric – a “Stringency Index” – to compare the overall national government responses to the pandemic across different states. The higher the stringency score, the more steps the country has taken across seven policy areas for responding to […] Read more »
Governors win high marks for coronavirus response, outpacing Trump
Americans are giving high marks to their governors as they lead state responses to the exploding coronavirus outbreak that has sickened more than 216,000 people across the country. At the same time, polls show fewer Americans are changing their minds about President Trump, even as he holds daily press briefings […] Read more »
Wisconsin shows how the Covid-19 pandemic has made holding elections much more difficult
If this were a normal primary season, I would be poring over the delegate numbers already decided and the polls for those yet to come, and analyzing Wisconsin’s role in the primaries and importance in the general election. If this were a normal primary season, because Wisconsin’s primary was scheduled […] Read more »
Democratic leaders win surge of approval during Covid-19 crisis
The approval ratings of democratic leaders around the world have soared during the coronavirus crisis, but political scientists say it will not last – and warn that populist opposition parties, in particular, will bounce back strongly as it subsides. CONT. Jon Henley, The Guardian Read more »