A large majority of Americans support establishing diplomatic ties with Cuba, and even larger — and growing — majorities support an end to trade and travel bans to the country, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. CONT. Scott Clement, Washington Post Read more »
Poll Finds Broad Public Support for Open Relations with Cuba
Broad majorities of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll support establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba, as well as ending the United States’ longstanding trade embargo and restrictions on travel to and from the Caribbean nation. CONT. Greg Holyk, ABC News Read more »
How do Americans feel about reestablishing relations with Cuba?
In the wake of President Obama’s surprise announcement of an agreement to normalize diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, 54 percent of Americans approve of reestablishing both diplomatic and trade relations between the two countries, while just 28 percent disapprove. … Evaluations of President Obama’s handling of relations with […] Read more »
New York Times Poll Finds Public Support for Re-Establishing Relations with Cuba
Most Americans support more normal trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba and consider what happens in the communist nation to be important to the interests of the United States. Still, there is little interest in visiting the country, according to a nationwide poll conducted by The New York Times in […] Read more »
The Rise of ‘Welfare Chauvinism’
… In the United States, the besieged two-party system has remained intact, protected by a 200-year-old tradition and an electoral system that cuts short any bid to create a viable third party. There are two major costs to this stability: recurrent gridlock, which constricts legislative action, and a failure to […] Read more »
Public Opinion Strategies: Key findings from a pre-election national survey
Public Opinion Strategies conducted a national telephone survey of 800 likely voters (560 landline; 240 cell phone), from October 30-November 2, 2014. … Economic issues will be a deciding factor in how people vote in this year’s elections. Nearly all voters (96%) say economic issues are important to their vote, […] Read more »