At the outset of Donald Trump’s third year in office, the public’s to-do list for the president and the 116th Congress spans domains with the economy, health care costs, education and preventing terrorism all cited as top priorities by majorities of Americans. … Improving the economy (70% top priority) remains […] Read more »
California Poll: Access to Mental Health Care, Insurance Coverage, Affordability Among Top Health Care Priorities
Californians rank making health care more affordable among their top overall priorities for the state’s new governor and legislature, with 45 percent citing it as “extremely important,” just behind improving public education (48%) and ahead of affordable housing (40%), finds a new KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation)/California Health Care Foundation poll […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: President Trump’s ratings after two years in office
President Donald Trump took office January 20, 2017. The Fox News Poll checked in with voters about how things are going for the administration after two years. Here are six takeaways. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
Public Opinion, the Wall and Views of Government
The U.S. government is partially shut down because elected representatives and the elected president can’t agree on legislation to fund government operations. This comes at a time when the people of the United States have in all but two of the past 13 months named dysfunctional government as the top […] Read more »
Government Spikes as Key U.S. Problem During Shutdown
As the federal government continues the longest shutdown in its history, Americans are most likely to cite “the government/poor leadership” (29%) as the most important problem facing the country. In fact, January saw a 10-percentage-point increase from December in views of government as the most important problem. CONT. Mohamed Younis, […] Read more »
No wonder there’s a shutdown: New poll shows how much Republicans and Democrats really disagree on immigration
This past weekend, the partial shutdown affecting a quarter of the federal government became the longest on record. … Why is there such difficulty finding a path forward? The roots of the shutdown can be traced to the fraught issue of immigration. A new GW Politics Poll shows just how […] Read more »