In this week’s episode of Poll Hub, what constitutes a national emergency? According to Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management & Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, it is all in the perception of the president. How does this national emergency differ […] Read more »
Americans Less Satisfied With Treatment of Minority Groups
Americans’ satisfaction with the way several minority groups are treated in society has fallen in recent years. Significantly fewer Americans now than in 2016 are satisfied with the way immigrants, blacks, Hispanics and Asians are treated. As a result, figures for the treatment of blacks and Hispanics now join those […] Read more »
Broad disapproval of Trump’s national emergency mirrors a critical 2020 problem for Trump
We’re pretty far down a tricky path for President Trump, whose promises on the 2016 campaign trail to build a wall on the border with Mexico were never likely to come to fruition given the process for getting legislation passed by Congress. … During the past two months, the bumpiness […] Read more »
6-In-10 Disapprove Of Trump’s Declaration Of A National Emergency
More than 6-in-10 Americans disapprove of President Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency so he can build barriers along the U.S border with Mexico, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. CONT. Domenico Montanaro, NPR News Read more »
Trump’s national emergency declaration unpopular among majority of Americans
A majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the latest poll from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist. Sixty-one percent of U.S. adults said they do not approve of the president’s national emergency, while 36 percent […] Read more »
Record High Name Government as Most Important Problem
Thirty-five percent of Americans name the government, poor leadership or politicians as the greatest problem facing the U.S. This is the highest percentage Gallup has recorded for this concern, edging out the previous high of 33% during the 2013 federal government shutdown. CONT. Justin McCarthy & Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »