What’s going to happen in the November 2020 presidential election? Obviously, that’s on the minds of quite a few political observers these days, and it would be even if we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic. And some are questioning whether the pandemic will scramble the election and everything […] Read more »
Trump Reaches Back Into His Old Bag of Populist Tricks
President Trump has chosen his pandemic re-election strategy. He is set on unifying and reinvigorating the groups that were crucial to his 2016 victory: racially resentful whites, evangelical Christians, gun activists, anti-vaxxers and wealthy conservatives. Tying his re-election to the growing anti-lockdown movement, Trump is encouraging a resurgence of what […] Read more »
Broad Support for Governors Over Protestors
This edition of our daily tracking release features findings from a national online survey of 1,012 registered voters conducted April 16-April 21, 2020 and a combined dataset of 7,749 registered voters conducted March 20-April 20, 2020. • There is widespread support for governors placing stay-at-home orders over those protesting the […] Read more »
Stay-at-home order protesters represent a minority view
Americans protesting stay-at-home orders in different parts of the country are capturing plenty of attention, but polling data makes it clear they represent a minority viewpoint when it comes to how to best deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The less visible and vocal majority is in favor of the stay-at-home […] Read more »
Most rate Trump’s coronavirus response negatively and expect crowds to be unsafe until summer
Most Americans expect no immediate easing of the health risks associated with the coronavirus pandemic, despite calls by President Trump and others to begin reopening the economy quickly. A majority say it could be June or later before it will be safe for larger gatherings to take place again, according […] Read more »
Two-thirds of voters back vote-by-mail in November 2020
A majority of voters — 58 percent — favor nationwide reform of election rules that would allow all eligible voters to cast their ballots by mail, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds. And nearly 10 percent more say that, while the rules should not be permanently changed, all […] Read more »