Opinion Today
November 10, 2023
Majority Now Say U.S. Losing Ground on Illegal Drug Problem Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Americans are more negative about U.S. progress in dealing with the problem of illegal drugs than at any prior point in Gallup’s trend, which dates back to 1972. For the first time, a majority of U.S. adults, 52%, say the U.S. has lost ground in coping with the illegal drug problem, while a record-low 24% say it has made progress. Another 23% believe it has stood still.
How Americans view the Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars Kathy Frankovic & David Montgomery, YouGov Americans see the major wars under way in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine as affecting the United States, but are divided about what role the U.S. should play in these conflicts.
Our Republican debate poll finds Nikki Haley won Scott Clement, Emily Guskin & Clara Ence Morse, Washington Post In the third Republican primary debate there was a clear winner: former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. A 538/Washington Post/Ipsos poll of potential Republican primary and caucus voters who watched Wednesday’s debate, hosted by NBC News, finds that a plurality, or 34 percent of debate watchers, say Haley performed best.
Who Won The Third Republican Debate? Holly Fuong, Aaron Bycoffe, Humera Lodhi & Nathaniel Rakich, 538 We partnered with The Washington Post and Ipsos to poll voters before and after the candidates took the stage. Republican debate watchers see Haley as the best performer, Ramaswamy as the worst Ipsos The 538/Washington Post/Ipsos post-debate poll also finds that only about a quarter of likely Republican primary voters tuned into the debate Morning Consult | Bloomberg News Partnership Survey: Key Issues and Ballot Performance One Year Ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election Morning Consult Trump is leading Biden in six of the seven surveyed 2024 swing states: Arizona (+4 percentage points), Georgia (+9 points), Nevada (+4 points), North Carolina (+9 points), Pennsylvania (+3 points) and Wisconsin (+2 points). Biden leads Trump by 1 point in Michigan. These results are from a ballot with President Biden, former President Trump, and third-party candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West, as well as options to write in another name, answer “don’t know/no opinion” or say they wouldn’t vote. Generation Z and the Transformation of American Adolescence Daniel A. Cox, Kelsey Eyre Hammond & Kyle Gray, Survey Center on American Life, American Enterprise Institute How Gen Z’s Formative Experiences Shape Its Politics, Priorities, and Future
Americans are uneasy about Middle East sports push, Post-UMD poll finds Rick Maese & Scott Clement, Washington Post As Middle Eastern money upends the economics of the sports world, about 4 in 10 Americans consider such investment in U.S. sports a bad thing, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.
