… President Trump has figured out the answer to one of the less important questions of 2020: How do you run a presidential campaign amid a pandemic? He can’t hold rallies, he can’t kiss babies, he can’t shake hands, not that he likes doing that anyway. And he can’t talk […] Read more »
National Poll of Latinos Finds 35% of Households Have Experienced a Layoff as a Result of COVID-19
As the Latino community grapples with the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, including a higher rate of fatalities compared to other populations, the nation’s first in-depth poll of the Latino population in America for 2020 has found that 35% of Latino households have already experienced a job loss, while more […] Read more »
The vast majority of Americans support continued social distancing
This edition of our daily tracking release features findings from a national online survey of 997 registered voters conducted April 14-April 17, 2020. • Trump’s approval ratings continue to drop and hit new lows in our daily tracking.• The percentage rating the economy negatively has hit a new high.• While […] Read more »
Bridging Divides, Most Agree on Economic Outlook: It’s Bleak
The coronavirus pandemic has united Americans of different races and income levels in deep pessimism about the economy, in contrast to the widely divergent views that prevailed before the crisis. Highly paid or less so, black or white, investors in the stock market or not, Americans largely expect a poor […] Read more »
What’s Driving the Right-Wing Protesters Fighting the Quarantine?
In an era when hardly anything feels nonpartisan, the coronavirus was starting to look like a consensus issue. … But this week, a rash of well-organized protests against state restrictions broke out — a jolting reminder that not everyone is on board with the new, government-mandated limits on public assembly […] Read more »
Important lessons from the Wisconsin primary
The Greater Wisconsin Primary—votes on April 7, results on April 13—served as a petri dish to study what election might look like if government officials can’t agree in time for November about how to flex longstanding election rules to ensure integrity in elections while guarding public health. The results show […] Read more »