The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted everyday life, including elections and campaigning. As polls and campaign momentum shift day to day and the country reckons with racism after the killing of George Floyd, candidates are increasingly finding themselves in uncharted waters. … On July 15, Governance Studies at Brookings will […] Read more »
Majority Again Think ‘Worst is Yet to Come’ in Pandemic
This release features findings from a national online survey of 1,013 registered voters conducted June 18-22, 2020. • Trump’s approval ratings remain negative across a range of metrics and are deeply underwater among independents.• The share that thinks the country is “off on the wrong track” has reached a new […] Read more »
The Black Lives Matter protests preview the politics of a diversifying America
The movement against police mistreatment of African Americans is broadening far beyond its core support in the Black community, with potentially landmark consequences both for the movement itself and the younger generations of Americans who have fueled this spring’s massive wave of protests. After years in which polls showed that […] Read more »
Is the Media Creating Division on COVID-19 Health Practices?
Most Americans continue to embrace practices to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Yet, a partisan gap in attitudes and self-reported behaviors has existed since March and is growing larger. A significant contributor to this widening gap seems to be Americans’ news media diet (determined by the top news sources […] Read more »
The more things change politically, the more views of Trump stay the same
One of the better polls for President Trump in recent times came from Quinnipiac University late last week. … What immediately struck me about the presented data, though, was how familiar it was. … Trump is, in just about every conceivable way, the most polarizing president in modern American history. […] Read more »
Even within his own party, Trump’s damn-the-torpedoes view of masks and rallies is a minority position
With a brashness familiar to any parent, President Trump has repeatedly waved away the idea of wearing a face mask. It’s an odd bit of machismo, both obvious in its focus on image and yet passive in how Trump presents it. … Republicans are less likely to indicate they wear […] Read more »