Rush-hour traffic jams and rising fuel costs haven’t put off 59% of Americans from driving to the workplace. The car is king for the majority of commuters – as only 5% use public transport to get to their jobs. The next most popular way of getting into work is on ...
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(Week of 6/16/2012) More than a quarter of Americans say they have an unfavorable opinion of Mitt Romney’s co-religionists, and the latest Economist/YouGov Poll suggests that many of those who are unfavorable are those whose votes the presumptive presidential nominee will need to win the fall election. 30% of Democrats ...
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(Week of 6/16/2012) The contest for the presidency remains close, with an equal percentage of registered voters committed to each side. In this week’s Economist/YouGov Poll, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney each get support from 44% of registered voters nationwide. But the President continues to be viewed as ...
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(Week of 6/16/2012) As President Obama discussed the latest jobs report earlier this month, he famously claimed that "the private sector is doing fine," a statement that his critics immediately jumped on as evidence of his being "out of touch." The President was making the point that the private sector ...
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Google’s Android operating system is currently the best perceived brand by the LGBT community in the US on a top 20 list that contains four Apple-related brands and several other tech and social media ones. As a matter of fact, this year’s list looks quite different from last year’s ranking, ...
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(Week of 6/16/2012) The Euro crisis has penetrated the American consciousness. Nearly eight in ten in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll are aware of it; more than two-thirds say the Greek economy is weak and most think the Spanish economy is as well. Germany, on the other hand, is seen as ...
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(Week of 6/16/2012) The Obama Administration’s decision that the federal government will stop deporting illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children as long as they have no criminal history and have graduated from high school or served in the military meets with support from nearly half the public ...
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With the Supreme Court set to decide whether or not the misnamed Affordable Health Care Act is constitutional, here's what went wrong with its passage. I've never understood why this country always felt that being on the short list of nations without socialized medicine was a bad thing. History has ...
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(Week of 6/9/2012) While the societal sources of support for Obama and Romney are complex, they can be summarized as the product of the relationship between three major demographic factors — race, gender, and education. We begin with what continues to be by far the largest racial group within the ...
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(Week of 6/9/2012) After an initially erratic period during his first year in office, public opinion about President Obama quickly settled into a relatively stable position. As can be seen in the chart below, weekly approval measures for the president have not deviated too much in the last few years. ...
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