Opinion Today
June 5, 2024
Americans are evenly divided on whether the average person can be trusted with a gun Jamie Ballard, YouGov A new YouGov survey asked Americans about their experiences with guns and their opinions about the causes of gun violence and potential solutions. Among a dozen measures polled about that might prevent gun violence, the ones Americans are most likely to support are requiring a waiting period before a person is able to purchase a gun (74% support) and not allowing people subject to restraining orders to have guns (74%).
Rising Concerns Over Future of Medicare and Social Security Dan Witters, Gallup Seventy-three percent of U.S. adults under the age of 65 report that they are “worried” (41%) or “extremely worried” (32%) that Medicare will not be available when they are eligible to receive it, a six-percentage-point jump since 2022, according to a new study by West Health and Gallup. Worries over Social Security are even higher and have also grown significantly -- 80% of respondents report that they are worried (33%) or extremely worried (47%), compared with 75% in 2022.
Public Opinion on the Future of Medicaid Grace Sparks, Robin Rudowitz & Ashley Kirzinger, KFF Earlier this year, the KFF Medicaid Unwinding Survey found Medicaid enrollees reporting overall positive experiences with their Medicaid coverage even as some of them lost their coverage as states began unwinding their Medicaid enrollment. The latest release from KFF examines the attitudes of the public overall on the future of the Medicaid program, as well leveraging the survey of adult Medicaid enrollees, to better understand how the public’s perception of the program compares to the population who most recently was enrolled by the program.
After backing him in 2020, a new poll shows some young voters are Biden's to lose Elena Moore, NPR News Four years ago, President Biden overwhelmingly won among Gen Z and millennial voters, and within that group, voters of color led that support for him. But now — a new poll from the University of Chicago, exclusively obtained by NPR, finds that the coalition may be severely diminished.
Tracking the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Cameron Easley & Eli Yokley, Morning Consult Trump leads Biden by 1 percentage point in our latest tracking, 44% to 43%, compared with a 2-point lead ahead of last week’s guilty verdict in the former president’s New York hush-money trial.
After the Trump verdict, most Republicans say they're OK with having a criminal as president Taylor Orth, YouGov Last week, Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony charges in the hush-money case against him. Compared to before the verdict, the biggest changes we found in a post-conviction poll conducted between May 31 and June 2 are in Republicans' positions on felony, crime in general, and the presidency.
