About a month into the school year, a clear majority of Virginia voters support coronavirus vaccine mandates in schools, while a smaller majority supports such requirements for in-person workers in the state, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll. The numbers are highest in the close-in, mostly blue D.C. suburbs, […] Read more »
Strong partisan divisions on Afghanistan, COVID policies, and election results
A Marquette Law School Poll survey of adults nationwide finds a mixed set of views on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. President Joe Biden’s handling of the withdrawal receives a 36% approval rating and a 63% disapproval rating. Among the same set of respondents, however, 74% support the withdrawal of […] Read more »
Why ‘all eyes’ will be on the Virginia suburbs this fall
Reassured by the results of California’s gubernatorial recall election last week, Democrats now face tougher electoral tests this fall that will measure whether they can defend their most important political advance of the Donald Trump era. Big gains in well-educated inner suburbs ringing the nation’s major cities keyed all the […] Read more »
Voters still don’t like the GOP’s answer to the coronavirus
Republicans have been hoping to turn the political page from the coronavirus pandemic for over a year now. We saw then-President Donald Trump try to do it in the lead-up to the 2020 election. It didn’t work. In the California gubernatorial recall, we saw Republican Larry Elder try and argue […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Majorities favor mask and vaccine mandates as pandemic worries increase
Majorities support mask and vaccine mandates advocated by the Biden administration, as the coronavirus pandemic remains a top concern, according to the latest Fox News poll. Three-quarters of registered voters are “extremely” or “very” concerned about the pandemic (74 percent), a 5-point increase from August when 69 percent were worried. […] Read more »
COVID takes a bite out of Biden’s approval ratings
… The chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was a gut punch. But the truth is, Biden’s approval rating was on a slow and steady decline before that. All presidential honeymoons must eventually come to an end. His honeymoon lasted around six months, about average. … COVID management was Biden’s key pillar […] Read more »