This release features findings from a national online survey of 1,012 registered voters conducted May 21-25, 2020. • A key group of Americans – those who disapprove of Trump overall, but approve of him on the economy – strongly disapprove of how Trump is handling the pandemic.• Americans are nostalgic […] Read more »
They Predicted ‘The Crisis of 2020’ … in 1991. So How Does This End?
They called it the Crisis of 2020 — an unspecified calamity that “could rival the gravest trials our ancestors have known” and serve as “the next great hinge of history.” It could be an environmental catastrophe, they wrote, a nuclear threat or “some catastrophic failure in the world economy.” That […] Read more »
60% of Americans Support Expanding Vote by Mail
The second round of a multi-university project to survey people in all 50 states about their opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic response focused on public opinion around increasing access to vote by mail (VBM) for the upcoming Presidential elections. 60% of respondents across all 50 states said they support making […] Read more »
House Democrats More Trusted on Pandemic Issues
This release features findings from a national online survey of 1,012 registered voters conducted May 21-25, 2020. • Trump’s approval rating on handling health care remains low as Democrats are more trusted on a variety of health metrics related to the pandemic.• Americans have increasingly favorable views of the ACA […] Read more »
WHO’s to Blame? Coronavirus and the Politics of Blame Shifting
Last week, President Donald Trump threatened to permanently cut US funding to the World Health Organization and eventually leave the institution. … Trump maintains that the WHO’s response during the early days of the COVID-19 crisis justified his unprecedented move. Will Trump’s attempt to scapegoat the WHO for the COVID-19 […] Read more »
Does Partisanship Affect Compliance with Government Recommendations?
… I examine three cases of government vaccine recommendations – Smallpox in 2003, H1N1 in 2009, and measles in 2015. In the first case, the president, George W. Bush, was a Republican. In the latter two, the country was governed by a Democratic administration. Using survey data, I test whether […] Read more »