Opinion Today
April 17, 2024
Yahoo News/YouGov poll: 57% of Americans — a new high — say Trump’s alleged crimes are ‘serious’ as hush money trial begins Andrew Romano, Yahoo News As the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president kicks off this week in Manhattan, more Americans than ever before (57%) say the underlying crimes that defendant Donald Trump has been charged with — “falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to a porn star” — are “serious,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Just one-third of Americans (33%) and only 14% of Republicans think the former president “will be found guilty” in the hush money case.
Trump has an edge over Biden on economy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Jason Lange, Reuters U.S. voters view Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as better for the economy than President Joe Biden, as the incumbent's approval rating ticked lower in April from the previous month, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. U.S.: Leader or Loser in the G7? Benedict Vigers, Gallup For the first time in almost two decades of polling, the United States now lags behind most of the other leading industrialized nations in the G7 across a range of Gallup indicators. The U.S. trails several G7 countries when it comes to its own people’s confidence in the national government and key institutions -- including the military and the judiciary -- as well as the ability of its people to meet their basic needs.
What do Americans want to know about climate change? Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication We asked Americans what questions they would ask a global warming expert if they had the opportunity. We found that overall, people would ask how scientists know that global warming is human-caused and what can be done to limit it. Most Student Loan Borrowers Have Delayed Major Life Events Stephanie Marken, Gallup 71% delay buying homes, purchasing cars or achieving other milestones due to loan debt
