Mark DiCamillo, director of The Field Poll The 2014 midterm election saw a continuation of the electoral resurgence of the Republican Party across most of the country during the six-year period since Barack Obama was elected president. Not only did Republicans regain control of the Senate, picking up eight seats, […] Read more »
Obama’s immigration policy popular, but approach isn’t
President Barack Obama’s policy of halting deportations for the undocumented parents of children born in the U.S. is popular — but his method for implementing it is not. Only 26% of Americans think Obama’s plan for those immigrants goes too far, while 50% called it about right and 22% said […] Read more »
Obama Approval Drops Among Working-Class Whites
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating among white non-college graduates is at 27% so far in 2014, 14 percentage points lower than among white college graduates. This is the largest yearly gap between these two groups since Obama took office. These data underscore the magnitude of the Democratic Party’s problem […] Read more »
Swing Voters Hold Key to Immigration Debate
The winner of a political argument is often determined by two things: timing and framing. In the case of immigration reform—at least the specific battle over President Obama’s executive order last week—the policy is put in place, and it is unlikely that it will be successfully legislatively or judicially overturned […] Read more »
Battling Into Overtime
… The public’s assessment of a retiring president always shadows the race to replace him: In exit polls, attitudes about the overall job performance of Ronald Reagan in 1988, Bill Clinton in 2000, and George W. Bush in 2008 powerfully predicted whether voters supported his party’s choice to succeed him. […] Read more »
Most Americans believe ISIS serious threat
Most Americans now believe ISIS poses at least a somewhat serious threat to the United States and Americans are growing slightly more hawkish on the U.S. strategy to combat the militant group, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday. CONT. Jeremy Diamond, CNN Read more »