For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been watching focus groups. Two of those groups included independent-leaning voters who don’t align themselves strongly with either party. One other group was comprised of so-called Democratic “surge” voters; people who vote infrequently or only in presidential elections. In other words, these are […] Read more »
Update: American Public Opinion and Vaccination Requirements
Majorities of Americans now favor requiring people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to travel by airplane, stay in a hotel, attend events with large crowds, dine in a restaurant and go to their office or work site. … One of the predictable, but important, divisions in opinions on vaccination […] Read more »
The Share Of U.S. Adults Willing To Get Vaccinated Ticks Up
The share of adults saying “no” to getting the COVID-19 vaccine dropped 5 percentage points in a month, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll conducted after the Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to Pfizer’s vaccine. The survey, which was in the field from Aug. 26 through Tuesday, […] Read more »
4 takeaways about Americans’ COVID views at summer’s end
It feels like we’ve been here before. New COVID-19 infections have hit another peak, health care systems are overwhelmed by severe cases, one more school year is starting without having the pandemic under control. But unlike previous surges, the nation has access to three effective vaccines and hundreds of millions […] Read more »
UT/Texas Politics Project poll finds Texans dour and deeply divided
The latest University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll finds Texans in a dour mood colored by a resurgent COVID-19 virus, an economy recovering yet roiled by its impact, and state politics driven by increasingly entrenched and in many instances extreme partisanship, which is being accentuated by the Republican monopoly on […] Read more »
92% of college freshmen are optimistic about their lives
The pandemic, a not-so-distant recession and a politically polarized America notwithstanding, first-year college students are overwhelmingly optimistic about their future, even if they’re less confident about the direction of the country and the world, a new poll found. A whopping 92 percent of the freshmen — attending either two-year or […] Read more »