In 2019, CBS News polled thousands of people across the country asking about a wide range of topics including President Trump, the Russia investigation, the 2020 race for the presidency, climate change and even the national anthem. The CBS News Poll also asked the public to weigh in on some […] Read more »
Biggest Political Moments Of 2019. Key Questions For 2020.
As the year comes to close, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team looks back on the most significant political moments of 2019 and previews the most pressing questions of 2020. They also discuss the Democrats’ debate over health care and the events that led the House to impeach President Trump. FiveThirtyEight Read more »
Health & Fitness Top New Year’s Resolutions
As we bid farewell to 2019, more than four in ten Americans (42%) say they are making New Year’s resolutions for 2020. Eating healthier (12%) and exercising more (11%) are atop the list for those who are likely to make a resolution. CONT. Marist Poll Read more »
Government Ranks as Top U.S. Problem for Third Year
For the third straight year, the government and certain domestic challenges have been at the forefront of Americans’ minds when asked to name “the most important problem facing the country today.” At the same time, economic and national security concerns have been conspicuously absent from the top mentions. CONT. Lydia […] Read more »
Americans Want The Health Care System To Change. Just Not Their Own Health Care.
Health care has sucked up a lot of oxygen during of the Democratic debates. And although it’s easy to lose sight of the broader stakes when the candidates are debating the finer points of the health care system, its fate is often a deeply personal and pressing topic for voters, […] Read more »
Emotional Partisanship Driving Views of Healthcare
One of the defining characteristics of our age is emotional partisanship, when Americans’ political and ideological self-identities are so emotionally powerful that they become the lens through which Americans view many nonpolitical aspects of their lives. … Several articles analyzing public opinion on healthcare published by my Gallup colleagues in […] Read more »