(Week of 5/18/2013) Congressional investigations of the attacks and killings in Benghazi, the accusations that the Internal Revenue Service scrutinized the tax-exempt status of groups that opposed the Administration, and the revelation that the Department of Justice had acquired phone records of the Associated Press as part of an investigation ...
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(Week of 5/18/2013) Americans continue to be dismayed at the Administration’s handling of the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya but nearly two in three see politics in the continuing Congressional investigations of the event, according to the latest Economist/YouGov Poll. A third thinks the investigations are ...
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(Week of 5/18/2013) Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a double mastectomy when she learned through genetic testing that she was about to develop breast cancer is applauded by Americans, and more than half in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll say they would want to have genetic testing themselves to see if ...
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(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) 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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While Americans overall have an increasingly negative attitude to the Affordable Care Act, they still approve of most its provisions Three years after it passed, the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, is still at the center of a heated debate. With its major provisions slated to begin next ...
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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 4/27/2013) After his first hundred days in office, in April, 2009, nearly six in ten Americans in the Economist/YouGov Poll approved of the way Barack Obama was handling his job. After his second hundred days, perceptions are not as good: 47% approve of how he is handling his ...
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