Opinion Weekend
January 27-28, 2024
Felonies, Old Age Heavily Count Against Presidential Candidates Lydia Saad, Gallup Americans express broad willingness to vote for candidates from several gender, racial and religious backgrounds that largely haven’t been represented in the White House. However, advanced age and being the subject of a felony probe are two characteristics Americans are not inclined to reward at the ballot box.
The 2024 U.S. presidential election outcome is highly uncertain Clifford Young & Chris Jackson, Ipsos Today, despite significant challenges, Trump out-performs Biden for the 2024 presidential election. Of our three election models, two of them point to Trump as the favored winner.
People are worried about the misuse of AI, but they trust it more than humans Matt Carmichael, Ipsos Only 43% of people trust AI tools not to discriminate or show bias towards any group of people; however, they actually trust AI slightly more than they trust humans (only 38%), according to the Ipsos Consumer Tracker.
Gas prices are falling, but a majority of Americans haven’t noticed Matt Carmichael, Ipsos Gas prices are down over the last year, but more than half of Americans (56%) still erroneously think prices are going up, according to the Ipsos Consumer Tracker. Older Democrats are more likely than younger Democrats to want more acceptance of sexual minorities Taylor Orth, YouGov New YouGov polling finds that among Democrats, attitudes on the societal acceptance and rights of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people vary significantly based on a person's age, with older people being more likely to say that societal acceptance of these groups hasn't gone far enough, to believe there is a lot of discrimination against them, and to support marriage and adoption rights for them.
The post pandemic world of work Clifford Young, Sarah Feldman & Bernard Mendez, Ipsos It’s been nearly four years since the COVID-19 pandemic induced possibly the single biggest disruption in human history. As we enter 2024, workers and employees are still trying to figure out what the future of work will look like.
Los Angeles: A new political advocacy group polled voters. Here’s what it found Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is going off the rails. The City Council is unpopular. The mayor’s doing a pretty good job. And most Angelenos aren’t too clear on what City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto is doing. Those were some of the results of a citywide poll commissioned by Thrive LA, a new advocacy group looking to get much more involved in local politics.
Early polls don't always foretell the fate of a first-term president. Does anything? Ron Elving, NPR News If polls are not perfect predictors of an incumbent's reelection, is there something else that is? Observers have long sought the True North by which to set their compass and their expectations.
