Opinion Today
January 30, 2024
Economic Mood Improves, but Inflation Still Vexing Americans Megan Brenan, Gallup While still negative overall, Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index has improved each of the past two months to its highest point in two years, reflecting improved views of both current economic conditions and the economy’s direction. However, a steady majority of Americans continue to say recent price increases have created financial hardship for them.
Trump maintains lead over Biden Cameron Easley, Morning Consult Trump leads Biden by 2 percentage points (44% to 42%) in our latest national tracking survey. Trump’s lead is down from a 5-point margin that we measured in our last update, which constituted an all-time tracking high.
Trump is up big over Haley nationwide Eli Yokley, Morning Consult Trump is backed by 81% of potential Republican primary voters, leading his only remaining challenger — former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — by 63 percentage points. As Haley ramps up attacks on the former president, our data shows her sharpest attack since New Hampshire – criticizing her 77-year-old rival’s age — is not falling on receptive ears: Just 13% of GOP primary voters said in a recent survey they “strongly agree” that Trump is too old.
Today’s Teenagers: Anxious About Their Futures and Disillusioned by Politicians Claire Cain Miller, New York Times [unlocked] Just one-third of respondents ages 12 to 17 said things were going well for children and teenagers today, in a survey published Monday by Common Sense Media, a children’s advocacy group. A different survey, by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation, the latest installment of which was also released Monday, has asked questions of young people over time and looked at how their answers have changed. Members of Gen Z, ages 12 to 27, are significantly less likely to rate their current and future lives highly than millennials were when they were the same age, it found.