Most Americans approve of how President Joe Biden is handling infrastructure and there is strong bipartisan support to include road, bridge, and port improvement and clean drinking water to the infrastructure bill being considered in Congress. Funding eldercare and affordable housing are also popular with the public but these features […] Read more »
What drives Republican and Trump voters’ belief in widespread voter fraud?
Most Americans don’t think there was widespread fraud in 2020, but ever since Joe Biden won, most Republicans say there was. This is connected to the push for further voting restrictions in some states, where making voting easier is seen as giving Democrats an advantage. A closer look at why […] Read more »
Trump Leads in Early 2024 NH GOP Nomination Race but Overall Remains Unpopular in NH
Nearly half of likely 2024 Republican primary voters in New Hampshire currently support former President Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination and a majority say Trump was one of the best presidents in history. However, Trump’s favorability among Granite Staters overall has fallen and most don’t want him to […] Read more »
Why Biden Might Avoid the Policy Sinkhole That Swamped His Predecessors
The 2020 Democratic presidential primary was often described as a contest over whether the country needed a return to normalcy or sweeping change. Joe Biden may have found a way to split the difference. Democrats have proposed or enacted trillions of dollars in federal spending, usually under the seemingly nonideological […] Read more »
Still more to learn about January 6, most Americans say
With Congress’ January 6 Select Committee slated to start work soon, Americans still overwhelmingly disapprove of the events they witnessed that day, a sentiment that includes big majorities of both Republicans and of former President Trump’s voters, too — and most do think there’s more to learn about it. But […] Read more »
The huge Democratic bet on ‘bricks and butter’
The spending proposals that Senate Democrats plan to begin advancing this week amount to a massive gamble that the party can simultaneously advance two of its longest-standing economic goals without generating a political backlash or overheating the economy. … In some ways, the Democrats’ bet that they can simultaneously turbocharge […] Read more »