Latest findings in Economist/YouGov Poll

(Week of 5/11/2013)  With additional parts of the Affordable Care Act set to go into effect next year, this week the Republican-controlled House of Representatives will once again attempt to repeal the bill. This week’s Economist/YouGov Poll finds just over a third of Americans – which includes 69% of all ...
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(Week of 5/11/2013)  Two in three Americans follow the news about the kidnappings, captivity and escape of three women in Cleveland, Ohio closely – and nearly half in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll think Ariel Castro, arrested for the crimes, should receive the death penalty if he is found guilty. This ...
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(Week of 5/11/2013)  Questions about the Benghazi attacks have yet to affect Democrats’ willingness to nominate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for their party’s presidential nomination in 2016. More than half of Democrats in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll say she should be the party’s nominee. Vice President Joe Biden ...
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(Week of 5/11/2013)  Americans are divided on whether the Obama Administration deliberately misled the American public about what it knew about last September’s attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya – and divided as well on whether the State Department and the Administration are taking the right steps to ...
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(Week of 5/4/2013)  Americans want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, to be tried in the civilian court system, not by a military tribunal. The latest Economist/YouGov Poll shows Americans – very narrowly – favoring civilian trials for most other accused of terrorist activities, too. But ...
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(Week of 5/4/2013)  So far, the sequester cuts are not having an impact on most of the public: just four in ten in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll say the cuts are having even a minor effect on them and their families. And only 11% say there has been a major ...
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(Week of 5/4/2013)  Last week, NBA player Jason Collins came out as gay in Sports Illustrated. Americans in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll approve of that decision by more than two to one. Opinions about Collins’ decision track with overall attitudes about gay rights. Collins’ decision gets more support from women than ...
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(Week of 5/4/2013)  Two out of three Americans would make the “morning-after” birth control pill, also known as Plan B, available without a prescription. And nearly a third in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll would make it available to all women, whatever their age. About a third would limit it, as ...
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(Week of 5/4/2013)  Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, writes in her new book, Leaning In, that sometimes women’s attitudes - and lack of credit taking - hold them back at work. Americans in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll aren’t sure. 57% of men – and 74% of women – continue ...
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(Week of 5/4/2013)  As Americans look ahead to celebrating Mother’s Day this weekend, they recognize that mothers don’t necessarily have it easy. In fact, 58% in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll say mothers have a harder time today than they did when today’s adults were growing up. Only 16% think things ...
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