… Our latest monthly May national poll of 1,000 likely 2022 voters, modeled after the 2020 turnout, conducted May 13 through 17, shows that good old President Biden is still skating along with a net positive job approval, but it’s down from last month – 56% approve, 43% disapprove. … […] Read more »
Californians’ Early Assessments of the Performance of President Biden and Vice President Harris are Highly Positive
Californians generally offer highly positive assessments of the job performances of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as the nation’s Vice President. In its examinations of how voters here view the nation’s new political leaders, the Berkeley IGS Poll finds 62% approving of the job Biden is doing as […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Biden approaches 100-day milestone
As Joe Biden closes in on the 100-day mark of his presidency, a Fox News poll finds a 54 percent majority of voters approves of his job performance. That’s lower than Barack Obama’s 62 percent and George W. Bush’s 63 percent approval at their respective 100-day points, but higher than […] Read more »
The Biggest Thing Kamala Harris Could Do This Year
The battle to protect voting rights needs a field general. Vice President Kamala Harris needs a cause to define her tenure. The second problem suggests the answer to the first: President Joe Biden could designate Harris as the administration’s point person in combatting the onslaught against voter access now advancing […] Read more »
California: Feinstein job ratings underwater for the first time in her tenure
For the first time in Dianne Feinstein’s long twenty-nine-year tenure, more Californians offer a negative than positive appraisal of the job she is doing in the U.S. Senate. The latest Berkeley IGS Poll finds that 45% of the state’s registered voters disapprove of Feinstein’s job performance overall, while just 35% […] Read more »
Many Value Democratic Principles, but Few Think Democracy Is Working Well These Days
Few Americans believe democracy is functioning well in the United States these days, even as a large majority agree that core democratic principles like a fair judiciary and a democratically elected government are important to the country’s identity. Seventy percent think President Biden has at least a fair amount of […] Read more »