Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans oppose allowing small business owners in their state to refuse to provide products or services to gay or lesbian people if doing so violates their religious beliefs. Roughly one-third (32%) support such religiously based service refusals. … After plateauing in 2015, support for same-sex marriage […] Read more »
Trump Supporters Have the Most to Lose in the G.O.P. Repeal Bill
The people who stand to lose the most in tax credits under the House Republican health plan tended to support Donald J. Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, according to a new Upshot analysis. … The plan would hit older and rural Americans hardest because it wouldn’t provide […] Read more »
Trump’s First Test
Stuff just got real here in Washington. With the introduction of the Obamacare repeal/replace legislation (the American Health Care Act) we are now going to finally find out if an ideologically flexible president who lacks a core governing philosophy (or governing experience) can get an ideologically diverse party with little […] Read more »
Americans Probably Won’t Like Parts Of The GOP Health Care Bill
The health care plan House Republicans put forward to replace the Affordable Care Act is just a starting point for negotiations. And we don’t have any polling yet on the plan (the American Health Care Act) specifically. But pollsters have tested many of its key components, and we have good […] Read more »
Mentions of Economy as Top US Problem Lowest Since 2007
Americans are now less likely than at any point since 2007 to name the economy in general (8%) as the most important problem facing the nation. … Almost one in five Americans (18%) name dissatisfaction with government or poor leadership as the nation’s greatest problem. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
If you thought the Obamacare backlash was bad, Trumpcare will give Democrats a whipping boy for the ages
There’s a new rule in American politics: Whichever party owns healthcare will come to regret it. … As we all know, the same Republicans who said Obamacare was fatally flawed swore they would replace it with a better, cheaper system — just as soon as they regained power. Now they […] Read more »