Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index registered a score of +2 in April, the first time it has been net positive since early March 2020, just before then-President Donald Trump declared a national emergency amid rising coronavirus infections. … As President Joe Biden prepares to address Congress this week and outline his […] Read more »
The Elephant in the Zoom
The whole thing started with this public health institute in Maryland called the de Beaumont Foundation. They’d been noticing with alarm that not only were Trump voters reluctant to get the vaccine, they were stubbornly so. Other hesitant groups seemed to be coming around to getting the vaccine, but not […] Read more »
Voters elected Joe Biden for this moment of racial reckoning
President Joe Biden’s remarks before and after the conviction of Derek Chauvin for George Floyd’s murder were clear and decisive. He called the evidence “overwhelming,” said he was “praying that the verdict is the right verdict” and argued for the country to come together following a verdict that was a […] Read more »
Biden’s approval rating is historically consistent
President Joe Biden’s first term passed the three-month point last week and will hit the 100th-day mark this week. We’re now at the point where the Biden presidency is well underway, and the American public has a track record to judge him by. The verdict so far has been historically […] Read more »
At 100 days, Biden’s approval remains strong. Can the honeymoon last?
As President Joe Biden nears his 100th day in office, slightly more than half of Americans say they approve of his job performance. Biden gets his highest marks on handling the Covid-19 pandemic and his lowest on the situation at the southern border. Those are the results of a new […] Read more »
Widespread agreement with Chauvin verdict
Three in four Americans think the jury reached the right verdict in which former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd, a majority view that spans across all racial, age and partisan groups. … Reaction to the verdict among White Americans is […] Read more »