(Week of 3/31/2012) Americans are still not feeling the economic gains that have been made this year: only 14% in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll say their family is better off now than they were a year ago. 30% say they are worse off. Still, that represents a change in the ...
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(Week of 3/31/2012) The issues of same-sex marriage and abortion often divide the American public. The latest Economist/YouGov Poll finds nearly half the public favoring allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally. There is support in all regions but the South, among younger adults and those with annual incomes above ...
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(Week of 3/31/2012) Governor Romney may be the Republican frontrunner, but he has an enthusiasm gap to make up: only 11% of GOP voters in this week’s Economist/YouGov Poll would be excited if Romney became the party’s nominee. Although more GOP voters express satisfaction with a Romney nomination, there ...
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(Week of 3/31/2012) Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has a large lead in delegates, but most Republican voters don’t believe the race needs to end quite yet. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, only 26% want all the other contenders to drop out now, leaving Romney free to concentrate on the ...
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(Week of 3/31/2012) If the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate of the Affordable Health Care Act, as many Court watchers believe it will after last week’s argument, the latest Economist/YouGov Poll suggests that the American public might not be too surprised—or too upset. By more than two to ...
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If all publicity is good publicity, that must have been a good week for Etch-a-Sketch. Respondents in the Economist/YouGov poll (Week of 3/24/2012) were given few clues when asked, simply, “Mitt Romney’s campaign advisers compared the Romney campaign’s plan for switching from the Republican primary campaign into the campaign against ...
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In the Economist/YouGov poll (Week of 3/24/2012) one-in-three respondents (34%) correctly identified Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time program, as the person who deserved the same sort of condemnation that liberals dumped on radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh for similar reasons—making crude remarks about women with whom each ...
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(Week of 3/24/2012) Once again, the Economist/YouGov Poll finds the President’s approval rating in the mid-40s. This week, 42% approve and 49% disapprove. Economist/YouGov poll archives can be found here Photo source: Press Association
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(Week of 3/24/2012) Over half the public admits they don’t know whether it is easy or difficult to get abortions in the place where they live. According to the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, men and women are about equally likely to say they don’t know, but young adults are more likely ...
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(Week of 3/24/2012) 86% of Americans have heard the allegations against U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, who allegedly shot and killed more than a dozen Afghan civilians last week. Respondents in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll are divided on what should happen to Bales should he be found guilty. 27% ...
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