A majority of Americans — 55% — now say the federal government has done a poor job preventing the spread of coronavirus in the United States, up eight points in about a week, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS as the nationwide death toll from the virus […] Read more »
Pollsters approve of newly talkative respondents
A poll released by the Siena College Research Institute over the weekend found that 87 percent of New Yorkers have had their lives significantly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. That group, it seems, includes the pollsters themselves. CONT. Bill Mahoney, Politico Read more »
Farmer sentiment plummets as coronavirus concerns rise
The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer recorded its largest one-month drop in sentiment during March. The barometer dipped 47 points to a reading of 121, as concerns over the impact of the global pandemic on the agricultural economy weighed heavily on farmers’ minds. CONT. Purdue U. Center for Commercial […] Read more »
Most Americans, unlike Trump, want mail-in ballots for November if coronavirus threatens
Most Americans, including a majority of Republicans, want the government to require mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 presidential election if the coronavirus outbreak still threatens the public this autumn, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. CONT. Chris Kahn, Reuters Read more »
Rulings on Wisconsin Election Raise Questions About Judicial Partisanship
In a pair of extraordinary rulings on Monday, the highest courts in Wisconsin and the nation split along ideological lines to reject Democratic efforts to defer voting in Tuesday’s elections in the state given the coronavirus pandemic. Election law experts said the stark divisions in the rulings did not bode […] Read more »
Coronavirus has ignited a battle over voting by mail. Here’s why it’s so controversial.
One of the biggest fights of this year’s presidential election may be over the election itself and how to hold it during the coronavirus crisis. Vote-by-mail, long mostly a hobbyhorse of good-government advocates, has suddenly been thrust to the center of an escalating partisan war as some say it’s the […] Read more »