Opinion Today

March 8, 2024

Americans Say More Women Officeholders Would Benefit Country
Lydia Saad, Gallup
Fifty-seven percent of U.S. adults believe the country would be governed better if more women were in political office, more than double the percentage who think it would be governed worse (22%). Another 21% volunteer that it makes no difference or have no opinion.

CNN Poll: More than 6 in 10 SOTU viewers had a positive reaction to Biden’s speech
Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy & Nicholas Anastacio, CNN
More than 6 in 10 Americans who watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address had a positive reaction to the speech, according to a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, with a smaller 35% reacting very positively. As in the past two years, Democratic speech watchers’ reactions to Biden were almost universally positive, with about two-thirds of independents who tuned in offering a positive reaction. Roughly three-quarters of Republicans who watched this year’s address offered a negative review.

The S…