… Efforts to figure out how political events effect vote choice are notoriously fraught. People’s responses on questions about whether they’re more or less likely to back candidates that, say, will fight to protect access to abortions are often downstream from how the respondents felt about the candidates in the […] Read more »
Post-decision poll: By 50% to 37%, Americans oppose the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade
Half of Americans – 50% – expressed opposition to the Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in a poll conducted on Friday, shortly after the decision was released. More than one in three (37%) support the Court’s decision. Men are significantly more likely than women to support the decision […] Read more »
Confidence in U.S. Supreme Court Sinks to Historic Low
With the U.S. Supreme Court expected to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision before the end of its 2021-2022 term, Americans’ confidence in the court has dropped sharply over the past year and reached a new low in Gallup’s nearly 50-year trend. Twenty-five percent of U.S. adults say they […] Read more »
The Major Supreme Court Decisions in 2022
… According to a recent survey from researchers at Harvard, Stanford and the University of Texas, the public is closely divided on how the court should rule in several major cases. In many of them, though, respondents held starkly different views based on their partisan affiliations. Here is a look […] Read more »
The Supreme Court, Public Opinion and the Fate of Roe
The Supreme Court, it has long been said, seldom gets very far out of step with public opinion. The court is about to test that conventional wisdom. In the coming weeks, it seems poised to overrule Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. Such […] Read more »
Gavin Newsom’s Case for a More Aggressive Democratic Party
On May 4, two days after Politico rocked Washington by revealing the draft of a Supreme Court decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, California Governor Gavin Newsom delivered remarks at a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood office—and triggered a small earthquake of his own. Newsom pledged that, however the […] Read more »