There is no special insight in saying the American electorate is deeply unhappy with our political leadership, the economy, and the direction of the country. But, as pollsters, we do keep looking to find new and insightful ways to measure this discontent and compare it across time. Even after a decade of a plurality to […]
read moreDespite the varying news climate over time, attitudes about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been remarkably stable. National surveys from NBC/WSJ, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Washington Post-ABC News consistently show that voters have a net negative opinion about the health care law regardless of the scale used to measure attitudes (Good Idea/Bad Idea, Favorable/Unfavorable, […]
read moreAccording to the latest NBC-WSJ poll conducted April 23-27, 2014, overall results are worse for the president and Democrats than the comparable findings on the last weekend heading into the 2010 election on five of six key national measures including: Direction of the country; Presidential job approval overall; Presidential job approval among whites; Congressional Preference; […]
read moreWe think you would enjoy what passes for a holiday card, pollster style–our holiday slide deck of good cheer! The deck serves as a vibrant reminder of the crazy quilt of American public opinion and answers the great questions of our time such as: I know being president is hard, but I wonder what God’s […]
read moreThese have been difficult weeks for the president, but it needs to be understood how potentially consequential these weeks could be on the arc of his presidency. Our latest slide deck looks at key data for President Bush before and after Hurricane Katrina and comparable data for President Obama before and after the roll-out of […]
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