Most of the states with low vaccination rates have Republican Governors. That is because they have majority Republican constituencies who don’t like government telling them what to do. There are a lot of reasons people are not getting vaccinated. There are still some access issues and not everyone knows the […] Read more »
Politics & Polls: Partisan Identity & Political Instability
How are partisan identity and misinformation connected? Sam Wang is joined by Brendan Nyhan to discuss misinformation, partisan identity, and the stability of America’s democratic norms. Princeton School of Public & International Affairs Princeton Policy Podcasts · #242: Partisan Identity & Political Instability (Brendan Nyhan) The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a […] Read more »
The Challenge Of Public Health Messaging Amid An Ever-Changing Virus
NPR’s Kelsey Snell talks with public health professor Robert Blendon about mistrust in government health agencies and who unvaccinated Americans might trust to be messengers on the COVID-19 vaccine. NPR News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up […] Read more »
Public Trust in CDC, FDA, and Fauci Holds Steady
With more than two-thirds of American adults vaccinated with at least one dose of an authorized Covid-19 vaccine, the top U.S. health agencies retain the trust of the vast majority of the American public, as does Dr. Anthony Fauci, the public face of U.S. efforts to combat the virus, according […] Read more »
How long-standing mistrust of government is hurting our vaccination efforts
Americans have lacked trust in the federal government since the 1970s. From the late 1950s until the Watergate scandal, a majority of Americans said they trusted the federal government to do the right thing most of the time. But since then, it’s been a minority (with the exception of the […] Read more »
Whether Republicans Get Vaccinated Has A Lot To Do With If They Watch Fox News … Or OANN
… Fox News is still king among Republicans. But the growing popularity of OANN and Newsmax is important: According to our research, Republicans’ stances on certain issues might be better predicted by their television news habits than by whether they identify as conservative, moderate or liberal. We found in our […] Read more »