President Joe Biden has inherited a complicated U.S.-China relationship that includes a trade war, mutually imposed sanctions on high-ranking officials, tensions flaring over human rights issues, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and an American public with deeply negative feelings toward China. Roughly nine-in-ten U.S. adults (89%) consider China a competitor or […] Read more »
58% of Americans approve of the way President Biden is handling his job
According to the most recent Reuters/Ipsos Core Political survey, over half of Americans continue to approve of Joe Biden and the way he is handling his job as President. Nearly 1 in 4 Americans agree that the economy is the most important problem facing the U.S. today. Twenty-two percent of […] Read more »
Volatility Is the New Normal
Many of us are wondering if this last year — one of the most tumultuous and consequential in American history — and the last four years of constant political turmoil were ‘outliers’ or if they represent the new normal. A challenge for those of us who have covered politics for […] Read more »
McLaughlin Poll Shows Democratic Party Neither Healing Nor Unifying Country
In our just completed national survey of 1,000 likely voters, the polarization of the American electorate has not ended with the elections of 2020. Instead, in spite of all the promises and rhetoric political division and disunity continues into 2021. Ironically, President Trump has left a recovering economy and historic […] Read more »
How the Senate decided impeachment
What can the impeachment vote tell us about the forces at work as our elected representatives grapple with key issues? … Republicans possessed of extensive Senate experience claimed a secret ballot would have produced just ten votes to acquit, suggesting at least 33 sacrificed their own judgment to something. Without […] Read more »
3 in 4 Say Congress Isn’t Doing Enough to Help People Who Lost Jobs or Income Due to the Pandemic
As Congress considers an additional $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan, more than a third (37%) of Americans say that someone in their household has had trouble paying basic living expenses over the past three months, the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. … The poll finds broad bipartisan agreement that […] Read more »