(Week of 5/19/2012) Nearly eight in ten Americans have heard of last week’s Facebook IPO, but despite the media frenzy about the company, few Americans believe Facebook stock is worth holding onto. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, only 14% of those aware of the IPO said Facebook stock was a ...
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Goldman Sachs may have to relinquish its title as Wall Street’s poster boy for bad behavior. After its recent admission of multibillion dollar trading losses JP Morgan’s consumer perception has dropped very sharply to the same levels as Goldman Sachs in the US when the NY Times published a stinging ...
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As discussed in a previous post, several recent studies show that political evaluations are increasingly polarized by racial attitudes after becoming associated with Barack Obama. Indeed, health care opinions, tax policy preferences, approval of Supreme Court nominees, midterm vote choices, party identification, and even impressions of Portuguese Water Dogs, have ...
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Most Americans claim not to like “negative” ads. But what they really do not like is the term “negative.” Voters actually see merit in candidates’ raising doubts about each other. What they react against are unfair, personal attacks. So, it is no surprise that 85% of Americans viewed ads that ...
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The practice of judicial review has been enshrined in the American political system since 1803, when the Supreme Court in the landmark case Marbury v. Madison successfully asserted its authority to judge the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress. Nevertheless, the American public is surprisingly ambivalent about the principle of ...
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YouGov is in the field each week on Saturday mornings with a nationwide, 1,000-person survey. Today, we're going to look at the surveys before and after President Obama’s ABC interview during which he came out in support of same-sex marriage. The interview made news for days --- and was the ...
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Throughout the primary season, one of the chief obstacles that Mitt Romney faced was a palpable lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy among the Republican grassroots. At best, a substantial part of the Republican electorate was lukewarm toward his candidacy; at worst, it was downright hostile. As the campaign season ...
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A long line of social science research suggests that the more attention campaigns and the media pay to a particular aspect of political life the more citizens will rely on that consideration in their political evaluations (see: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; though also see: here). In other words, an ...
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(Week of 5/12/2012) While Americans believe by a two-to-one margin that most people don’t have the time or knowledge to make wise political decisions (52% agree-25% disagree), by an even wider margin, Americans also believe politicians should just follow the will of the people, which is pretty clear (56% agree-19% ...
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(Week of 5/12/2012) With President Obama’s announcement of support for gay marriage, the Presidential campaign roared into the headlines, but the contest has hardly begun to captivate Americans according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. Overall, barely one-in-three (35%) are following news about the 2012 Presidential election campaign very closely. Disinterest ...
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