As the war in Ukraine grinds on, a full 63% of Americans now say they agree that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Just 14% disagree. In a country as divided as the U.S., that would be a striking level of […] Read more »
Economy, war and foreign conflict remain the nation’s top issues
This week’s Ipsos’ Core Political has President Biden with a 45% approval rating as the economy and war and foreign conflict remain the nation’s top issues. One-quarter (25%) of Americans believe the economy is the most important problem facing the nation today, followed by war and foreign conflict (10%), and […] Read more »
Why aren’t Americans rallying around Biden during a war?
The Biden administration has earned broad praise for its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — at least before the president’s unscripted remark that Russian President Vladimir Putin should not remain in power. Conventional wisdom has long held that U.S. public opinion rallies around the flag and the president in […] Read more »
Coronavirus is no longer a top issue for Americans. That’s good news for Republicans
… For about two years, the popularity of the president (whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden) was tied to how he was handling the coronavirus pandemic. Then a funny thing happened. As Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths started falling over the last few months, Biden’s approval rating on the pandemic […] Read more »
Biden’s Proposed Budget and American Public Opinion
President Joe Biden has released the proposed Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2023. The budget document is 148 pages long. It presents a very lengthy list of proposed government spending initiatives, along with a discussion of the virtues and benefits of each. … An important question from my […] Read more »
Why hasn’t Biden felt the rally ‘round the flag effect?
In times of external threat, we expect to see the presidential approval rating spike as the country ‘rallies around the flag,” unified around a common crisis. … While Biden might be performing relatively well on Ukraine, the larger problem is that ultimately, Americans are most concerned with the inflation and […] Read more »