(Week of 5/26/2012) The fall horse-race remains close, with the President holding on to a small lead over presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney. In this week’s Economist/YouGov Poll, 46% of registered voters say they would support the President if the November election were being held today, while 43% say they ...
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(Week of 5/26/2012) Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has run ads touting the former Massachusetts Governor’s business experience, but President Obama’s campaign has run ads attacking it. The latest Economist/YouGov Poll suggests that the public may be sympathetic to the messages both campaigns are sending. While Americans have a negative view ...
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(Week of 5/19/2012) Those with some college experience but not a four-year college degree will be an important swing group in the 2012 Presidential election. The overall horse-race between President Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, is at this time a close and volatile contest with many lead ...
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(Week of 5/19/2012) Fewer than half of all Americans (only 45%!) strongly disapprove of the job Congress is doing. That’s being sarcastic. It is hard to soften up the views of anyone who has gotten all the way to a strongly negative opinion. It will not be pleasant for Congressional ...
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(Week of 5/19/2012) The President’s approval rating in the Economist/YouGov Poll remains below 50%. Just 44% of Americans approve of how he is handling his job. 50% disapprove. Despite his more than three year service as President, many Americans refuse to use the word "experienced" to describe Mr. Obama. Just ...
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(Week of 5/19/2012) Throughout the Republican primary season, Mitt Romney suffered from two serious perception problems with his fellow Republicans — the view that he was not a conservative, and the view that his expressed beliefs were insincere. But according to the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, Republicans may be changing their ...
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(Week of 5/19/2012) The Economist/YouGov Poll has been testing various possible (though somewhat improbable) third party candidacies to see how they might affect the fall race between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. Last week, the poll suggested that, if retired General David Petraeus were to run as ...
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(Week of 5/19/2012) Nearly three in four Americans view the countries of Western Europe, including Great Britain, France and Germany, as friends, but fewer in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll think they are good role models: just 52% say Western Europeans have strong social values. Conservatives especially are distressed by Western ...
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(Week of 5/19/2012) Non-Caucasians became the majority of all births in the United States last week, and the future United States will be increasingly diverse racially and ethnically. Most Americans are optimistic about what that will mean for American society: 62% in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll say increasing diversity will ...
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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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