… The gold standard of approval ratings is compiled by Gallup, the firm that helped create public polling and that has been sampling America’s opinion of its presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gallup compiles daily running and weekly averages that it used to track how popular presidents are. By neither […] Read more »
New research of voters decisive to 2016 election outcome
Priorities USA commissioned Global Strategy Group and Garin Hart Yang to conduct polling and focus groups among two key groups decisive in the recent 2016 election – “swing voters” who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 and “turnout voters” who are Democratic-leaning voters, including African-American […] Read more »
Americans See US World Standing as Worst in a Decade
Americans believe the world at large sees the U.S. more unfavorably (57%) than favorably (42%), their worst assessment of the country’s image in 10 years. … Fewer than three in 10 Americans (29%) say leaders of other countries have respect for the new president, with 67% saying world leaders do […] Read more »
Young Republicans hopeful, young Democrats fearful
Young Republicans are more hopeful about the future of America by a margin of 10 to 1 after President Donald Trump’s inaugural address, while young Democrats are fearful and independents are split between hopeful and fearful, finds a new national poll of America’s 18- to 29- year-olds by Harvard Kennedy […] Read more »
60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll: Democracy
Welcome to the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll for February 2017. As a new administration takes office in Washington, it is fitting that this month’s poll centers on democracy. In Greece, where democracy was conceived, its literal translation was “rule of the commoners” but it may have been defined most succinctly […] Read more »
Parties of the Left, Wake Up!
Center-left parties in America and Europe are struggling. They are struggling for three reasons: First, they have failed to offer a credible response to the period of prolonged income stagnation and growing inequality; second, they have become part of the political-business-elite accommodation that the public views as corrupt; and third, […] Read more »