It’s not difficult to view abortion as a contentious issue. With equal percentages of Americans — 48% each — identifying themselves as “pro-choice” and “pro-life” in Gallup’s May 2018 update on abortion, the country looks to be completely polarized on the matter. … At the same time, there are two […] Read more »
Democrats Have No Safe Options On Health Care
Even though most of the candidates have committed to some form of universal health care, the Democratic primary is turning into a debate about the future of the country’s health care system. … In the abstract, focusing on health care makes a lot of political sense for Democrats. It was […] Read more »
Postal Service Still Americans’ Favorite Federal Agency
Americans are maintaining a mostly positive view of the job each of eight different high-profile federal departments and agencies is doing, out of 13 such entities measured in a new Gallup poll. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) remains the top-rated agency, with 74% saying it is doing an “excellent” or […] Read more »
How Kellyanne Conway influenced a new Trump rule cheered by religious conservatives
Kellyanne Conway was a Republican pollster when she appeared at a 2009 news conference, flanked by more than a dozen people in white doctors’ coats, to unveil surveys she conducted on religious freedom and medicine. Conway had been hired by the Christian Medical and Dental Associations to bolster the groups’ […] Read more »
What do Latinos really think about Trump?
Given the growth in the Latino electorate, which is expected to surpass African Americans as the second largest group of voters in 2020, many polling organizations now report out subgroup results for “Hispanics.” They shouldn’t. Their sample sizes of Latino voters are woefully small, typically 80-150 in size, and their […] Read more »
Socialism not seen as compatible with American values, but opinion is not overwhelmingly negative
Most Americans say socialism is not compatible with American values, but only 4-in-10 hold a decidedly negative opinion of it. The latest Monmouth University Poll also finds that less than half the country has a clearly positive opinion of capitalism. Republicans have stronger, largely negative, views of socialism. Democrats tend […] Read more »