A record number of women are running for Congress this year, but there’s a partisan divide on whether things would be better with more women in office. Most Democratic women (76 percent) say more women in office would improve things. Far fewer independents (39 percent) and Republicans agree (25 percent). […] Read more »
Do Americans Tolerate Zero Tolerance?
Controversies over “zero tolerance” have exploded recently in two very distinct contexts: the Trump administration’s policy for undocumented border-crossers, dramatized most starkly in its separation of migrant children from their parents, and the #MeToo debate over how firm policies should be toward men who press themselves on women, highlighted by […] Read more »
Two-thirds of Americans Don’t Want the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
As President Trump prepares to make a new Supreme Court nomination, new polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that two-thirds (67%) of the public do not want the Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that established women’s constitutional right to abortion. Fielded this month […] Read more »
Trimesters Still Key to Abortion Views
Americans’ support for the legality of abortion varies sharply when they are asked to evaluate it on a trimester basis, which is consistent with the pattern Gallup has found for more than 20 years. CONT. Lydia Saad, Gallup Read more »
What Are They Hiding?
The Special Counsel Investigation: Americans want the investigation to continue, but are more interested in indictments and crimes than in rehashing 2016. For many Americans, the cover up is the crime. When we ask Americans what this investigation is about, they say it’s about Russian interference and collusion rather than […] Read more »
Double-digit gender gap on sexual harassment in 2018 vote
Women voters are significantly more likely than male voters to say sexual harassment will be important to their vote for Congress this year, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS released on Wednesday. CONT. Grace Sparks, CNN Read more »