Whoever wins Tuesday’s presidential election will confront a nation that has grown increasingly pessimistic, divided and bitter about the state of American politics, according to the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of the 2016 presidential race. Sixty-four percent of likely voters say the election of the next president […] Read more »
What’s wrong with the ‘right or wrong track’ polling numbers
… It turns out that “right or wrong track” isn’t a great predictor of presidential election outcomes. Candidates from the party that controls the White House have performed better when more Americans see the country heading on the right course. But that connection unravels when the incumbent president’s job approval […] Read more »
Impressions of US direction improved, but divided by partisanship
More Americans than at any time in Barack Obama’s presidency now say that things in the United States are going well, a sharp uptick in positive views and the best reviews of the country’s trajectory since January 2007, according to the latest CNN/ORC poll. … The new poll also finds […] Read more »
Better or Worse Since the 1950s? Trump and Clinton Supporters at Odds over the Past and Future of the Country
Two weeks before the presidential election, a new national survey finds that supporters of each presidential candidate view cultural changes in America since 1950 very differently. About seven in ten (72 percent) Donald Trump likely voters say American culture and way of life has changed for the worse since the […] Read more »
CBS News poll: Hispanics in America
According to a new CBS News poll, the outlook of Hispanic Americans on their lives, their family’s future, and their opportunities in the U.S., is markedly optimistic. And in what has been a bitterly-divisive election season, a majority of the American public thinks Hispanics have a positive influence on American […] Read more »
Presidential approval a stronger indicator of voter choice than satisfaction with the country
It may seem at first glance like a political riddle: How can President Obama’s job approval rating be above 50% when only about a third of the public is satisfied with the way things are going in the country? In a survey last month by Pew Research Center, 53% approved […] Read more »