Opinion Weekend
November 25-26, 2023
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Economist/YouGov Poll: Congress, Biden, Gaza, and China Carl Bialik & Kathy Frankovic, YouGov This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers Americans' views on Congress, Biden's job performance and handling of specific issues, wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and the China-U.S. deal on fentanyl.
Voters See American Dream Slipping Out of Reach, WSJ/NORC Poll Shows Aaron Zitner, Wall Street Journal The American dream—the proposition that anyone who works hard can get ahead, regardless of their background—has slipped out of reach in the minds of many Americans. Only 36% of voters in a new Wall Street Journal/NORC survey said the American dream still holds true, substantially fewer than the 53% who said so in 2012 and 48% in 2016 in similar surveys of adults by another pollster. Half of Americans are saving more for a safety net Zoe Galland, Ipsos 34% of Americans say that in the past six months they have postponed or skipped a big-ticket product purchase. Democracy, abortion are top priorities for single-issue voters Bridget Bowman, NBC News Voters who may decide to vote for or against a candidate on a single issue tend to prioritize protecting democracy or constitutional rights and abortion, according to the latest national NBC News poll.
43% of American electorate doesn't know Speaker Mike Johnson Alexandra Marquez, NBC News Among voters who do recognize his name, Johnson's net favorability rating is underwater. One in five voters use TikTok daily, poll finds Bridget Bowman, NBC News NBC News poll shows stark differences between TikTok users and non-users on Biden, Israel
Biden’s numbers are weaker than Trump’s a year before the election Bill McInturff, Public Opinion Strategies 73% of Americans say that the country is off on the wrong track. We have not seen this level of sustained pessimism in the history of the NBC News Poll going back to 1989.
How open are Americans to electoral system reform? Sohini Desai, Protect Democracy New poll finds broad appetite for proportional representation What Worries the World: Worry over terrorism and military conflict between nations on the rise Simon Atkinson, Ipsos Inflation has now been the top global concern in our What Worries the World survey for the last 20 months. Concern over terrorism and military conflict between nations have both risen this month.
Also in this edition of Opinion Weekend:
How Biden Might Recover | Why this election has echoes of 1968 | The polls keep getting worse for Biden | Do Young Voters Actually Prefer Trump to Biden? | Democrats Are Panicking About the Wrong Thing | Republicans’ views of the economy are completely detached from reality | One way Trump is fighting history: Election losers usually lose the rematch, too | The Flip Side to the Dobbs Effect | Americans Under 30 Don’t Trust Religion — or Anything Else | Americans don't know much about Napoleon | Is Polling Broken? | What Draws Latino Voters to Trump ... & much more.
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