… Across the country, the coronavirus has sickened more than 150,000 people, cost millions their jobs and tanked the stock market. Yet the president’s approval ratings are as high as they have ever been, despite what most agree to be his slow performance dealing with the crisis, as well as […] Read more »
The coronavirus polling bump is real. But Trump’s is abnormally small.
President Trump’s job approval ratings are up as the public generally approves of his response to the coronavirus crisis. That positive bump is small, however, compared with the bumps for other Western leaders. … Trump’s relatively paltry polling gains are surely related to the extreme level of distrust he has […] Read more »
Coronavirus is dividing blue cities from their red states
The struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic is opening a new front in the long-running conflict between blue cities and red states. Across a wide array of states with Republican governors, many of the largest cities and counties — most of them led by Democrats — are moving aggressively to […] Read more »
Why Trump’s Approval Rating Has Increased
In recent days, President Trump’s approval rating has hit its highest point since the early days of his presidency. The FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast team discusses why and suggests it may not be a good longterm indicator for the president. They also discuss where exactly we are in the arc of […] Read more »
Polling shows Americans see COVID-19 as a crisis, don’t think US is overreacting
As soon as the novel coronavirus began spreading across the country, some pundits—and on occasion President Trump—alleged that health experts and the media were exaggerating the problem and that policy makers were responding with measures that the American people would not tolerate. The high-quality survey research published in recent days […] Read more »
Most Americans Say Coronavirus Outbreak Has Impacted Their Lives
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to rise and schools, workplaces and public gathering spaces across the United States remain closed, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that the coronavirus outbreak is having profound impacts on the personal lives of Americans in a variety of ways. Nearly […] Read more »