… As the campaign makes the turn into the final stretch, Priorities USA’s new battleground survey — conducted by Global Strategy Group and Garin Hart Yang Research Group, who completed live phone interviews with nearly 5,000 voters — shows relative stability, with voters maintaining widespread disapproval of Trump’s performance overall […] Read more »
Anxious About the Virus, Older Voters Grow More Wary of Trump
The coronavirus crisis and the administration’s halting response to it have cost President Trump support from one of his most crucial constituencies: America’s seniors. … For years, Republicans and Mr. Trump have relied on older Americans, the country’s largest voting bloc, to offset a huge advantage Democrats enjoy with younger […] Read more »
Americans’ Retirement Outlook Largely Intact
Nonretired Americans’ expectations for what their income sources will be in retirement are broadly similar to a year ago. Most say they will rely to varying degrees on Social Security, retirement savings accounts, regular savings accounts or CDs, and part-time work. CONT. Lydia Saad, Gallup Read more »
Personal Finances: Future More Concerning Than Present
Although Americans’ assessments of their current finances are not much lower than last year, 50% of Americans now say their financial situation is getting worse. This latest reading is, by one percentage point, the highest Gallup has measured in a trend stretching back two decades. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
America Decides: How Voters Think About the Economy, Government, and Poverty Ahead of the 2020 Election
The 2020 presidential election cycle will be one of the most consequential in U.S. history. Although electoral outcomes often turn on candidate evaluations or social and cultural choices unrelated to public policy, voters in the upcoming year will likely confront a choice between two competing visions of domestic policy that […] Read more »
Public Expresses Favorable Views of a Number of Federal Agencies
Despite historically low levels of public trust in the federal government, Americans across the political spectrum continue to overwhelmingly express favorable opinions of a number of individual federal agencies, including the Postal Service, the National Park Service, NASA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And majorities of […] Read more »