(Week of 3/24/2012) Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney continues to hold what many observers see as an insurmountable lead in delegates to the Republican National Convention, but he remains unable to "close the deal" among the Republican electorate. In this week’s Economist/YouGov poll, Romney is dead even with his main ...
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(Week of 3/24/2012) Nearly nine in ten Americans have heard about the Florida shooting death of the unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin; over three in five in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll think the shooter, George Zimmerman, should be arrested and tried for murder. In most groups a majority or near-majority ...
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(Week of 3/24/2012) Americans continue to worry about what the Affordable Health Care Act, passed two years ago and now being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, means for them. Two in five respondents in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll would like to see the law repealed. Repeal of the ...
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Among women, President Barack Obama leads Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney by 55%-38% in the Economist/YouGov poll (Week of 3/17/2012). That 17-point deficit among women right now is too much for Romney to overcome, as Romney leads Obama among men by 45%-43%. Right now, it is Newt Gingrich and even Rick ...
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(Week of 3/17/2012) President Obama’s approval ratings continue to languish in the mid-forties. In this week’s Economist/YouGov Poll, 42% approve of the way he is handling his job, while 51% don’t. The President’s ratings have improved from earlier this year, but remain well below 50%, seen as the magic number ...
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(Week of 3/17/2012) 73% of the public believes the income gap between rich and poor has gotten bigger in the last few years, according to the latest Economist/YouGov Poll. But Americans are less willing to support government action aimed at narrowing the gap than they are to support general efforts ...
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(Week of 3/17/2012) Americans have wanted the U.S. to withdraw from Afghanistan for a while, and recent events there have only confirmed that belief. More than half of the respondents in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll say the government should speed up its withdrawal plans, and remove U.S. troops before the ...
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(Week of 3/17/2012) Despite claims that a long campaign will hurt the eventual GOP nominee in the fall race against President Obama, Republican voters don’t want any candidates to drop out of the contest—at least not yet. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, just 24% think all the trailing candidates should ...
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(Week of 3/10/2012) This Economist/YouGov Poll was mostly conducted before the news of an American soldier allegedly murdering more than a dozen Afghan civilians — an action that occasioned apologies from a number of U.S. dignitaries, including the President. But Americans agree that a Presidential apology for U.S. mistakes abroad ...
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(Week of 3/10/2012) Americans continue to give the President an approval rating in the mid-forties—not great, but better than their ratings of him last summer. In this Economist/YouGov Poll, 45% approve, while 48% don’t. 40% approve of his handling of the economy, one of the highest ratings in recent months. ...
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