Strong majorities of Americans oppose the movement to “defund the police” and some of its most significant goals, specifically reshuffling funding away from law enforcement to support mental health, housing and education programs, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday finds. CONT. Kendall Karson, ABC News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is […] Read more »
Public Remains Pro-Mask and Cautious About Reopening
This release features findings from a national online survey of 1,608 registered voters conducted June 4-8, 2020. • Americans overwhelmingly believe the country is in crisis, pointing to both the ongoing pandemic and the protests following George Floyd’s death.• While Democrats are most worried about police violence and others not […] Read more »
Americans’ views on World Health Organization split along partisan lines
The World Health Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, has historically served several public health functions, including fighting communicable and non-communicable diseases. It has played a high-profile role in addressing the global spread of the coronavirus, which it characterized as a pandemic in early March. But in mid-April, […] Read more »
The politics of confusion tests both Trump and Biden
The American electorate today is understandably distressed and perhaps a little more than confused over the turn of events in the past few months. Who could blame them? … Americans at this point have become a little like balls in a tennis match, smashed back and forth, from one side […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Public split on return to routine due to coronavirus
People are about evenly split over whether they would be comfortable returning to their regular routines today, according to a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS nearly three months after the pandemic caused a widespread shutdown of life in America. Those divides come even as more people report venturing out to […] Read more »
Satisfaction With U.S. Direction Lowest in Four Years
• Satisfaction has dropped 25 points from recent high in February• Republicans’ 39% satisfaction down from 80% in February• Citations of race issues as most important problem highest since 1968 CONT. Megan Brenan, Gallup The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s […] Read more »