Opinion Today
July 11, 2023
Large Shares See Russia and Putin in Negative Light, While Views of Zelenskyy More Mixed Pew Research Center As a new Pew Research Center survey highlights, Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, continue to be viewed negatively by people around the world. A median of 82% of adults across 24 countries have an unfavorable view of Russia, while a similar share have no confidence in Putin to do the right thing regarding world affairs, including nine-in-ten or more in Poland, Sweden, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Partisan views of the electoral system AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Only 44% of the public has a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that the votes in the 2024 presidential election will be counted accurately. Republicans tend to express less confidence in the nation’s voting systems and more concern about voter fraud than Democrats. Democrats are more concerned about voter suppression and gerrymandering.
GOP confidence in 2024 vote count low after years of false election claims, AP-NORC poll shows Christina A. Cassidy & Linley Sanders, Associated Press The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds that only 22% of Republicans have high confidence that votes in the upcoming presidential election will be counted accurately compared to 71% of Democrats, underscoring a partisan divide fueled by a relentless campaign of lies related to the 2020 presidential election. Biden Approval Rating Sinks; College Graduate Support Dims As Loan Forgiveness Dies Jed Graham, Investor’s Business Daily The July IBD/TIPP Poll shows 38% of Americans age 18 and up approve of how Biden is handling the presidency, and 51% disapprove. The slippage in Biden's approval rating comes amid weaker support among members of his own party. July's IBD/TIPP Poll showed 69% of Democrats now give Biden positive marks, while 19% disapprove of his job performance. That's down from 71%-20% in June, 74%-17% in May, 76%-16% in April and 83%-10% in March. How Americans evaluate the Supreme Court and its recent rulings Kathy Frankovic, Taylor Orth & Carl Bialik, YouGov This week’s Economist/YouGov poll demonstrates the growing partisan divide in how Americans view the Supreme Court. The recent set of Court decisions may even have changed how Americans look at the Court’s main job: deciding cases based on the U.S. Constitution.
Americans' Confidence in Higher Education Down Sharply Megan Brenan, Gallup Americans’ confidence in higher education has fallen to 36%, sharply lower than in two prior readings in 2015 (57%) and 2018 (48%). In addition to the 17% of U.S. adults who have “a great deal” and 19% “quite a lot” of confidence, 40% have “some” and 22% “very little” confidence.
Home Price Expectations Trend Higher While Short-Term Inflation Expectations Continue to Moderate Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Center for Microeconomic Data has released the June 2023 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows that inflation expectations continued to fall at the short-term horizon, remained unchanged at the medium-term horizon, and increased somewhat at the longer-term horizon. Home price growth expectations rose again to their highest level in almost a year. Households' perceptions and expectations for credit conditions and for their own financial situations both improved slightly.
