Opinion Today
November 14, 2022
Steady 55% of Americans Support Death Penalty for Murderers Megan Brenan, Gallup The majority of Americans, 55%, are in favor of the death penalty for convicted murderers in the U.S. While this marks the sixth consecutive year that support for capital punishment is between 54% and 56%, it is below the 60% to 80% readings recorded in the four prior decades between 1976 and 2016.
While Democrats may have bucked the national trend, Republicans still hold a large sway in GOP-led states Ronald Brownstein, CNN More than ever after this year’s stunning election results, red and blue America look like two separate nations, hurtling toward antithetical and ominously incompatible visions of what the country should be. Why were the midterm elections close? Exit polls offer clues. Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN A set of countervailing political forces may have contributed to the closeness of this year’s midterm elections, according to the current results of the national exit poll conducted for CNN and …
